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[Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo <miguelangel@xxxxxxx>]

Niiiicee!!! :-)

   Keep working and you will get it done :-), I think it's a very useful
improvement to
any daily work in KiCad.

   Have you tried to work with the wxForms builder?, if you see the dialogs
directory in pcbnew there
is a lot of .fbp files that export a _base.cpp and _base.h (something like
that), why is a class
that you can derive with your real form code and keep the form edited in
wxformbuilder later.

http://wxformbuilder.org/


2012/6/11 Brian Sidebotham <brian.sidebotham@xxxxxxxxx>

> On 25 May 2012 17:00, Brian Sidebotham <brian.sidebotham@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 22 May 2012 11:26, Brian Sidebotham <brian.sidebotham@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >> On 16 May 2012 10:50, Brian Sidebotham <brian.sidebotham@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >>> Hi Guys,
> >>>
> >>> I've had a change to put a proposal of the functionality together
> >>> which I think covers most stuff. I've attached a txt file incase the
> >>> text below doesn't come out very well.
> >>>
> >>> I think the functionality will be great for a lot of users of KiCad.
> >>> Let me know if I should convert this to a blueprint on Launchpad.
> >>>
> >>>    Proposal
> >>>    --------
> >>>
> >>>    To add new project template functionality to KiCad to facilitate
> the easy
> >>>    setup of projects which have common attributes such as pre-defined
> board
> >>>    outlines, connector posisitions, schematic elements, design rules,
> etc.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>    Definitions
> >>>    -----------
> >>>
> >>>    A template is a directory of files, which includes a directory of
> metadata.
> >>>    The template system name (SYSNAME) is the directory name under
> which the
> >>>    template files are stored. The metadata directory (METADIR) contains
> >>>    pre-defined files which provide information about the template.
> >>>
> >>>    All files and directories in a template are copied to the new
> project path
> >>>    when a project is created using a template, except METADIR.
> >>>
> >>>    All files and directories which start with SYSNAME will have SYSNAME
> >>>    replaced by the new project filename, excluding the file extension.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>    Metadata
> >>>    --------
> >>>
> >>>    A template's METADIR must contain the required files, and might
> optionally
> >>>    contain any of the optional files
> >>>
> >>>        Required Files
> >>>        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >>>
> >>>        /info.html  - Contains html formatted information about the
> template
> >>>                which is used by the user to determine if the template
> is what
> >>>                they are after. The <title> tag determines the actual
> name of
> >>>                the template that is exposed to the user for template
> selection.
> >>>
> >>>                Using html to format this document means that images
> can be
> >>>                inlined without having to invent a new scheme.
> >>>
> >>>                Only HTML supported by wxHTML can be used to format this
> >>>                document.
> >>>
> >>>        Optional Files
> >>>        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >>>
> >>>        /icon.png   - A 64 x 64px PNG icon file which is used as a
> clickable
> >>>                icon in the template selection dialog.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>    Operation
> >>>    ---------
> >>>
> >>>    The KiCad File menu will be modified to change New from a menu item
> to a
> >>>    pop-out menu item, in the same manor as Open Recent. There will be
> two
> >>>    options on the pop-out menu:
> >>>
> >>>    Blank -> Will act exactly the same as the current new menu item so
> >>> that anyone
> >>>    who wishes to create a blank project won't have their settings lost
> or feel
> >>>    alienated.
> >>>
> >>>    From Template -> Will open the template selection dialog.
> >>>
> >>>    The template selection dialog will have a list of icons on the
> left, and a
> >>>    wxHTML window to the right. A single click on a template's icon on
> the left
> >>>    will load that templates info.html metadata file and display it in
> the
> >>>    wxHTML window.
> >>>
> >>>    A double click on a template's icon will start the new project
> creation and
> >>>    will open a new file dialog. If the user selects a valid location
> for the
> >>>    new project, the template will be copied to the new project location
> >>>    (excluding METADIR as mentioned earlier) and any files that match
> the string
> >>>    replacement rules will be renamed to reflect the new project's name.
> >>>
> >>>    The list of available templates will be gathered from the following
> sources:
> >>>
> >>>    wxStandardPaths::GetExecutableDir()/../share/template/
> >>>    wxStandardPaths::GetUserDataDir()/templates/
> >>>    wxGetEnv(wxT("KICAD_TEMPLATES"))
> >>
> >> No news is good news! ;-)
> >>
> >> I'm starting to implement this now.
> >>
> >> Best Regards, Brian.
> >
> > This is now mostly working, I've just got the new template selector
> > dialog to finish off. The GUI bits always seem to take a while to
> > finish!
> >
> > Best Regards, Brian.
>
> Hi Guys,
>
> Just another ping! Code is on-going - sorry the wxWidgets GUI stuff
> takes ages to do; Especially as there is essentially a custom tabbed
> selection widget. Still, I've learnt a lot about wxWidgets and it's
> getting close to completion now.
>
> A preview (with random icons!) can be seen:
> http://www.valvers.com/files/kicad-templates-preview.png
>
> I have yet to scrape the html for the project title to print under the
> icons (I now don't fancy doing this through wxHtml as their custom tag
> handling looks awful!). A simple regex will do the trick easy enough
> though. Once that's done and some code tidying is done I'll prep the
> patch. Probably another week or so before I can do that.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Brian.
>
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