X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-help-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-help AT delorie DOT com X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at devio.us Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 23:33:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Alan Corey cc: geda-help AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: [geda-help] Adding new gschem symbols? In-Reply-To: <1349966191.2412.33.camel@AMD64X2.fritz.box> Message-ID: References: <1349966191 DOT 2412 DOT 33 DOT camel AT AMD64X2 DOT fritz DOT box> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSO 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Reply-To: geda-help AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-help AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk > Have you read > > http://wiki.geda-project.org/geda:faq-gschem#how_do_i_configure_my_local_gafrc_to_find_my_local_symbol_directory > > and related topics? Not much of anything online because I don't have a full time internet connection, and not enough of what's in the downloaded (1.6.2) package. To some degree the documentation seems to contradict itself because parts of it are old so I'm not sure how seriously to take any of it. I've mostly been sticking to the "Official Project documentation" not the wiki. > desktop it may be necessary to modify the global gafrc file -- I have That's what I'd prefer to do since I'm the only user, sometimes as myself and sometimes as root. Desktop? Hah! I use fvwm and I haven't even put any gEDA stuff in the menu yet, I usually type gschem or pcb at the command line, but without paying attention to where I happen to be. > When you say "I cant see them", do you mean when you uses "Add -> > Component" from menu? You have to click on the triangle symbols to > display entries in a sub folder in the file browser. No, what I'm looking for is really not there. But I didn't realize it didn't recurse subdirectories, and that names collide. I thought it would be nice to have all those symbols that people have uploaded available so I went through a long process of making a sym/cvsed directory then putting symbols under submitter names in more subdirectories, something similar for footprints. Lots of names are duplicates, and lots of things I don't have any immediate use for, I just thought they'd be nice to have. I did discover gsymcheck and the symbol I'm trying to use passes, I just need to reorganize. At the risk of complicating matters more, ever think about incorporating an SQL database? The database could track symbols and footprints, maybe even models, and symbols and footprints at least could probably live in the database or be external to it. Multiple things could exist with the same names in different places and you could do a query to see what's where. You could probably even have a preview field that would show what a symbol or footprint looked like. Alan