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[Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo <miguelangel@xxxxxxx>]

2012/4/13 Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>>     c)  There is the case of opening/saving single componente files (.cmp?), that would
>>> be almost the same plugin.
>> I don't want to support that, unless it can be done with the plugin with special status,
>> which is the "KICAD" plugin, and I think this is simply
>>
>> SaveModule() on the KICAD plugin.  It comes out in s-expression format, ALWAYS.  And
>> because the "library" argument is actually only a directory for that plugin, you have your
>> CMP file, but it is always s-expresion.
>>
>
> KICAD plugin is special in a number ways.  It will never be external, always internal.
> It is the native format.  It is our future clipboard format.
>
> Many more ways will reveal themselves in the next couple of weeks.  :)
>
> So we can trick out this PLUGIN to write the "CMP" file to the clipboard if the library
> name is NULL.

Why not using "CLIPBOARD" :-) or something equivalent (that couldn't
be a library name), this way the code using this will be much more
clear.

Or just add a second function "SaveModuleToClipboard",  or even better
(to reduce coupling to user interface): SaveModuleToString() and
return an string, that later the UI code will put into the clipboard.

>
> Then a person could use a text editor and paste that footprint into a text editor and look
> at it.
>
> Or we could paste it into another copy of PCBNEW in the future.

That's an important feature.  For distributed library handling may be
the SaveModuleToString or LoadModuleFromString variants could make a
lot of sense too.


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