Re: gEDA-dev: In which HID would a PCB preview live?

[Dan McMahill <dan-at-NOSPAMmcmahill_dot_net>]

Peter Clifton wrote:
> Dear PCB folks,
> 
> I was wondering where in PCB's hid system would be best to put a
> "preview" gui. This (I'd imagine) would take the form of a simple
> toplevel window which shows a symbol (or layout) passed to it zoomed to
> extents.
> 
> The invoking application could either parent / embed that window, or
> instruct PCB how it should be shown. I am thinking about how we might
> call it from gschem to preview footprints (say).

how about telling pcb (via actions or the command line) to produce a 
.png and then display that in gschem (or whatever)?



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