Re: gEDA-dev: Project Manager

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2-at-NOSPAMcam_dot_ac_dot_uk>]

On Sat, 2008-03-29 at 16:18 -0400, al davis wrote:

> Just adding a graphic wrapper around one tool doesn't give me anything.  
> By adding a few buttons to push, usually in a routine, it makes the 
> interface worse.  This is what I mean by "kick me".  I need to kick it 
> to keep it going.

Partly due to the lack integration with a file-change monitoring API.
Currently xgsch2pcb looks to see if anything needs updating when you
wave the mouse over it. The other part to this, is that we need a more
graceful way of introducing new "forward annotation" into PCB without
interrupting the users work.

I'd long planned a kind of "rat-parts" pane where new items due to be
placed on the board can sit - rather than gsch2pcb or xgsch2pcb dumping
them at the origin for you to sort out manually.

This could perhaps become a tab in the PCB library window, e.g. "To be
placed"... and they would list by refdes, for example.

Best wishes,

-- 
Peter Clifton

Electrical Engineering Division,
Engineering Department,
University of Cambridge,
9, JJ Thomson Avenue,
Cambridge
CB3 0FA

Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!)



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