Mail Archives: geda-user/2015/02/13/16:40:20
John Doty wrote:
> On Feb 11, 2015, at 3:19 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak
> <knaak AT iqo DOT uni-hannover DOT de> wrote:
>
>> A unambiguous sort of symbols on save would finally solve a still
>> standing issue you may remember: gnetlist behaves differently depending
>> on the order symbols were added.
>
> I agree this is an annoyance.
It messes with components that are represented by more than one symbol.
Consider an opamp which is represented by the usual triangle and a
separate box for the power supply. The power supply symbol contains the
footprint attribute.
This is good style and recommended for clarity. It reduces the clutter but
still shows all the pins.
The netlister looks only at the first symbol of a group when it determines
the footprint. If the power rectangle was placed after the triangle, the
netlister thinks, acts like this is a component without a footprint. This
frequently leads to confusion among students I teach the fundamentals of
geda.
> However, take account of the problem of
> filled graphics, where one may manipulate that order to get the
> appearance you want.
Fair enough.
Applications like inkscape or xfig provide user accessible functions to
raise or lower a selected item. So order is relevant for the graphical
representation. But it certainly should not matter to the netlist.
With that in mind, a sort should take place on read input of the
netlister.
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