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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

While I don't want to pollute the title bar, would it be a good idea
for us to mark scripting builds with -scripting like we do with
testing?  This wouldn't be a long term thing--just until scripting
support is in every single build.

Adam Wolf

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Brian Sidebotham
<brian.sidebotham@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 24 October 2012 23:23, Brian Sidebotham <brian.sidebotham@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 24 October 2012 21:20, Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo <miguelangel@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> Wow wow woow!!! :D
>>>
>>> If you're using console Python, and call import pcbnew, then you should use
>>> LoadBoard("xxxxx"),
>>>
>>> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kicad-testing-committers/kicad/testing/view/head:/pcbnew/scripting/examples/listPcb.py
>>>
>>> if it's a pcbnew console inside pcbnew window, then It really seems like the
>>> pcbnew is reloading the
>>> pcbnew.dll and then GetBoard cannot find the "frame" pcb, in that case try
>>> to put the .dll out of path
>>> for the pcbnew .exe
>>
>> Thanks for the info Miguel.
>>
>> I can't find any trace of scripting within PCBNEW in this build. Is
>> there something that would hint to me that it is actually a scripting
>> build?
>>
>> I don't see anything that will let me have a scripting window inside
>> the PCBNEW frame. I've tried moving the python.py _python.pyd and
>> libpcbnew.dll.a files outside of the bin directory, but with no
>> change. I have been simply running python from the console, but it
>> sounds like that's not right if I want to interact with PCBNEW
>> directly.
>>
>> The console mode appears to work fine for working on files and stuff
>> using the LoadBoard().
>>
>> Thanks for your continued work on scripting! :-)
>>
>> Best Regards, Brian.
>
> Ah, sorry for the lack of accurate information - I should add that I
> didn't enable the wxpython option as I wanted to keep things simple to
> begin with. Perhaps this is a pre-requisite of having a console window
> in PCBNEW?
>
> Best Regards, Brian.
>
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