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Re: file format feedback

 

On 4/9/2012 10:38 AM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
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> Some more feedback:
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> (segment ...) IS on one line, so good there.
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> Wonder if (segment) is our best keyword for what is a trace/track.  specctra uses
> (wire).   Could check EAGLE's new XML format, if we're lacking opinions, which would be
> atypical.
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> Wonder of the flags in (segment (status HERE) )  should not be spelled out, and omitted
> when they are defaulted.  This way you can omit (status).

Spelling out the flags is doable.  I was also wondering which flags
actually need to be saved.  I'm sure some of the editing flags don't
need to be saved.  But they may all be cleaned up properly before the
file is saved so it may be a non-issue.

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> You could use single keyword presence, rather than name/value pairs obviously, like you
> did for module_text hide, which needs leading whitespace BTW.

Good catch!  I'll fix it.

Wayne

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