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On 07/13/2015 05:25 PM, John Doty wrote:
>> Actually, the functionality I envision IS a gschem issue, albeit a 
>> very minor one.  I've seen a lot of schematics (I think done in
>> Eagle but I'm not sure) that have something that sorta looks like a
>> lollipop pointing to a trace, with "20mils" or whatever in the
>> circle.  Of course I can (and do) attach any arbitrary attribute to
>> anything, and I think this is one of gschem's great strengths, but
>> there needs to be (IMO) a bit of GUI work for this feature as
>> well.
> 
> No work at all in either gschem or the gnetlist front end is needed
> to do that. There is already a function in the gnetlist back end API
> that rejoices in the name
> "gnetlist:graphical-objs-in-net-with-attrib-get-attrib". It retrieves
> an arbitrary attribute from a “graphical=1” symbol attached to a net.
> So, draw your lollipop as a symbol, give it attributes graphical=1
> and trace-width=20mil. Attach it to your net.

  Ah-HA!  Most excellent, thank you!

> And now, of course, the buck is passed downstream to the specific
> gnetlist back end and the specific tool it supports. That’s where
> special features to support specific flows belong.

  Yes.

               -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA