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[Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo <miguelangel@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks Dick,

   It really seems that the scripting thing is bringing us a lot of
good things, I'd like to push it forward faster, we advance slowly,
but it's being a fruitful work :)

   I'll announce a contribution that Edwin van den Oetelaar sent us
yesterday night, and now that I'm trying it, it's awesome!!! :)

   He figured out how to fix the "wx" issue, so it will let us
interact with the wx part from  Python, adding the wxPython dependency
to pcbnew, but I understand it's perfectly ok  :-)

   I'm writing that email :)

2012/7/30 Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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> > I suppose it's something that receives a set of parameters and generates a
> > module/footprint or circuit?
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> spiral, on free board inductor generator I guess.
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> >     I am not certain that Pcbnew can yet invoke a script, it may be that we are still using
> >     topmost script with the DLL/DSO underneath.  But we need to get there eventually in any
> >     case.
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> > Yes, we can do it already, at this moment, if you compile pcbnew with scripting
> > capabilities, and put any of these
> > http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kicad-testing-committers/kicad/testing/files/head:/pcbnew/scripting/plugins/
> > <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Ekicad-testing-committers/kicad/testing/files/head:/pcbnew/scripting/plugins/>
> >  under ~/.kicad_plugins/  (which may change later as we discussed recently) they will
> > get loaded and available to the user under the footprint-wizard.
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> >     I like this spiral feature as a sample script when somebody can get to it.  I like it
> >     better as a script than as C++ so it can be tuned and customized rapidly.
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> > Yesterday I uploaded a capacitive slider generator, you give it a set of parameters, and
> > you can watch the shape change in realtime, and, when you're comfortable with the
> > results you can (not now..) save it to your current footprint library.
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> Wow, this is becoming a reality.  Nice work Miguel.
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