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Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:24:37 +0100
From: Kai-Martin <kmk AT familieknaak DOT de>
Subject: Re: [geda-user] Multiple footprint attributes in gschem symbols?
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On 02/01/2012 01:46:53 AM, Stefan Salewski wrote:

> How do we specify these two footprints in symbols?
>=20
> I am asking because I intend to display the variants in an editable
> GtkComboBox in the attribute editor.
>=20
> footprint_1=3DDIP8
> footprint_2=3DSO8
>=20
> or
>=20
> footprint=3DDIP8, SO8

For my effort to provide a newbie friendly starter library ("essential lib"=
)
I went for additional attributes "footprints" and "values". These plural
attributes contain comma separated lists. E.g.

footprints=3DSO8, DIP8
values=3DLL4148, 1N4148, 1N4001, 1N4005

My reasoning for this:
1) plural is intuitive
2) easy to expand -- just add more values when needed
3) the list provides a natural order. The designer of the lib may
put the most common value to the front.
4) the list already shows with the current GUI
5) easy to parse for future releases to provide a drop-down list

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