Mail Archives: geda-user/2012/07/26/03:05:29
Girvin
> Gabriel,
> The attribute color is easily changed. Select the attribute text
> and use ex to bring up the text format window. There is a listbox
> where you can change the color as well as size and orientation.
I'm well aware of this, actually eo is even simpler in this case.
What I mind is having to do it too frequently and the fact
that promoting attribute from a symbol loses the color information:
would it be so inconvenient to have the color preserved by promotion?
When I add a visible attribute to a symbol, it is initially set with
a default color, fair enough, which I can edit in the symbol. What
happens is that the automatic promotion (this is a visible attribute,
so it is always promoted) resets color to its default value for
attributes instead of inheriting it. I think that this is a bug:
if I change it explicitly in the symbol, it is because I have
a reason for it and it should be inherited.
> However, the big question is if there are any utilities that require
> a specific color. I have not run into any, but I haven't much
> experience beyond gschem. In this case, since this attribute is
> only used within the schematic symbol and we users have created it,
> there shouldn't be any other utilities that even know about it.
> The gEDA/gaf Symbol Creation Document
> http://wiki.geda-project.org/geda:gschem_symbol_creation
> Does specify certain colors for certain attributes, but I think this
> is just a guideline/convention, not a hard and fast rule. The
> document uses the term "should" be, not "shall" be, for attribute
> colors.
Indeed. I think I did not express myself well, what I'd like is
inheritance of attribute color on symbols, perhaps even under
the control of a setting in the gedarc/gschemrc files.
Gabriel
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