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Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 13:40:31 -0700
From: "Girvin R. Herr" <girvin DOT herr AT sbcglobal DOT net>
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To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: [geda-user] Symbol attributes
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John,
Thank you very much.  That explains my observations and gives me some 
work-arounds. 
I read about attribute promotion somewhere but I never really understood 
how it affects me until now.
Thanks.
Girvin


John Doty wrote:
> On Jul 19, 2012, at 11:47 AM, Girvin R. Herr wrote:
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>> My question is, what determines an attribute as basic (schematic-editable) or "Inherited" (not schematic-editable)?
>> Or, more to the point: How do I set the editability of an attribute in an instantiated symbol?
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> You're talking about "attribute promotion". An attribute in the symbol may be "promoted" to an attribute attached to a specific instance of the the symbol in the schematic. That's how attributes become editable.
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> You can manually promote an attribute by right-clicking on it in the attributes menu. Or you may simply attach an attribute to a symbol with a name identical to an unpromoted attribute.
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> There are arcane rules for automatically deciding which attributes are to be promoted. I usually turn as much of that off as possible by the use of a line like:
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> (always-promote-attributes '("refdes"))
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> This makes wholesale changes of attributes by editing symbols more predictable and useful.
>
> John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
> http://www.noqsi.com/
> jpd AT noqsi DOT com
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