| ID: | 2509 |
| From: | ge...@igor2.repo.hu |
| Date: | Fri, 14 Dec 2018 05:45:12 +0100 (CET) |
| Subject: | [pcb-rnd] save connection data of - anyone ever used this? |
Hi all, I'm doing a full rewrite on find.c. In fact the most important parts are already done, and I am mostly moving around or removing old code. There's a part that I always wondered if anyone ever use: in pcb-rnd, file menu, save connection data of submenu - the first three menu utems (excluding the netlist back annotation). They do some connection lookups and save them in a strange format. My questions are: 1. Does anybody here use this feature in practice? (Please note: I am interested in actual uses of the fetuare, not theoretical possibilites and speculation - I mean I can imagine what it could be good for, but I am interested if it's really used for anything. It's totally fine if we figure nobody ever use it.) 2. If so, what are you using it for and how? What software does it read? 3. Is this file format standard? Is it documented somewhere? Or is it totally custom, invented by whoever coded this part, for their own use? 4. The code seems to print __CHECKED__ instead of the connection list in a special case: if multiple pins are connected _within_ an element. What's the practical use of this special casing? Why is this better than just printing connections normally? 5. If you don't use this specific feature, but always wanted to have something similar that is slightly different (e.g. different file format or different summary of connections), what would that be and what would be the practical use? TIA, Igor2
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