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Subject: Re: [geda-user] refdes index locations
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Comments: In-reply-to Joshua Lansford <Joshua DOT Lansford AT laserlinc DOT com>
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Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:56:52 +0200 (CEST)
From: karl AT aspodata DOT se (Karl Hammar)
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Joshua:
> > Very nice, but shouldn't you pick the center of the component instead
> > of its lower left, or why not picking the lower left of the refdes,
> > which is the thing one is loocking for when searching, that should be
> > easy to find for the program ?
> That is a good point.   I'm impressed you figured that out.  Did you get 
> the script running or did you read though script?

                                if line.startswith( "C " ):
                                        lineSplit = line.split()
                                        x = int( lineSplit[1] )
                                        y = int( lineSplit[2] )
                                        symName = lineSplit[6]
                                        justSawComponent = True
                                        refdes = ""

> If you get an itch for it, send me a patch which corrects it.  If the
> script is not parsing the component width, it shouldn't be that
> hard to add it to the model.

Remeber the "T" line (x,y)'s instead, if next one is refdes=xx, use it.

> > Instead of forcing the user to tell the program the bonding box, why
> > not scan through it (recursively), let the program do the job?

> I thought about that and while finding the width and height of the page 
> is somewhat straightforward, scanning and obtaining the number of visual 
> rows and columns the sheet is divided into could be interesting. (What 
> is the "largest" single letter, and single number text field ..)  
> Especially as you would also be guessing as to which symbol even is the 
> title page. (who's the biggest, who has the term title in the 
> filename...)  It would take less work and be more reliable, to go ahead 
> and create all the entries for all the different title pages.  If 
> someone were to create their own brand new sheet the guess algorithms 
> for identifying and profiling the sheet might not work anyway.

Ok, I'll pass on this one.

> > What is the interface to finding symbols, is it in libgeda or in scheme?

> The python script parses the ASCII schematic files themselves. (woot 
> human readable format)

Yes, but the .sch-file doesn't tell you where your symbols are, it just 
tells you the basename.

Regards,
/Karl Hammar

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