gEDA-dev: gschem feature request: derive a pcb search string from a selection

[Peter Clifton]

On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 14:43 +0000, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:15:50 +0000, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> 
> > I will report wether I can reproduce the problem with log out, or
> > reboot.
> 
> log-out, log-in, reboot 
> ---> The xgschem2pcb starts pcb without trouble 
> 
> The dbus magic seems to have repaired itself ...

Bizarre, hopefully this problem won't be too common feature of xgsch2pcb
usage. I know Stuart had problems before (with a distro which didn't
auto-start DBus as part of its desktop).


I've written the basics of an interface for gschem which allows a client
to query what files are open. The next step will be exporting an API to
query the attributes of selected objects on a particular page.

The missing glue will be the association between the schematic page
file-name and the PCB filename, perhaps also rules to add appropriate
prefixing of refdes. I may look at whether it is possible to add a
similar "server" type API to gnetlist, for it loiter around after its
done its processing, and have it sit answering questions on the
hierarchy of the design.

-- 
Peter Clifton

Electrical Engineering Division,
Engineering Department,
University of Cambridge,
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