gEDA-user: Basic questions from a gEDA & Linux noob (replies to Vol15, Issue 24)

[John Griessen]

Felix Fujishiro wrote:
  I would like to turn off the visibility, to make it look
> 'cleaner' and to avoid any chance of a random connection.... could you tell
> me how I might do that?

I found away to minimize a pin via editing the symbol file...not sure if there is a way
using the GUI to do it.   I changed a likely flag, and visibility of the pin reduced
to the red dot on its end.  You could get everything else the way you want it, then run a script
to modify your symbols, since the substrate connection is the one to make invisible.
A text processing script could just match on substrate, then modify that line in every symbol.

diff test-invisible-pin.sym test-visible-pin.sym
29c29
< P 2100 1000 1800 1000 0 0 0
---
 > P 2100 1000 1800 1000 1 0 0

See attached example files.

John Griessen

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