gEDA-dev: GSOC last minute proposal

[Bert Timmerman]

Have a look at:

http://www.seul.org/pipermail/geda-dev/2007-September/003804.html

by Andrew Tan, for a starting point.

Kind regards,

Bert Timmerman.

On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 21:01 -0400, Dan McMahill wrote:
> Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> > Now, that the GSoC application deadline was delayed, I'd like to propose 
> > a project that would definitely improve usability of gschem:
> > 
> > 	An interactive sub sheet symbol generator  
> > 
> > Currently, manual sub sheet generation is a major obstacle when starting 
> > a hierarchical project. I'd expect this to be a finite project with good 
> > chance to be completed by the end of summer. Any chance for this proposal 
> > to enter the GSoC procedure?
> 
> fwiw, a large commercial tool I know of lets you create a symbol from a 
> schematic or a schematic from a symbol.  In the sch->sym direction, you 
> get a dialog which has a text entry for top,bottom,left,right and they 
> come pre-filled in with all the pin names.  You can re-order the pins 
> and/or move them to different edges of the symbol.  Then hit ok and you 
> get a box symbol with all the pins.  The sym->sch direction just creates 
> an empty schematic with all the pins in place.  Both are pretty darn useful.
> 
> -Dan
> 
> 
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