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On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 9:37 PM, Dave McGuire (mcguire AT neurotica DOT com)
[via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> 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!

Fantastic! Thank you!
(I now have to wonder how much of this stuff is in the manual/wiki)

>> 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
>



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