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[Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo <miguelangel@xxxxxxx>]

2012/10/25 Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>

> On 10/24/2012 03:20 PM, Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo 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
> > <
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Ekicad-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
>
>
> Is this theory anything? :
>
> Linux is I think a little more flexible on dynamic linking than windows
> is.  So we may
> have inadvertently become dependent on a feature of linux that will not be
> present on windows.
>
>
It seems only that wxPython was missing, but we will have to explore how
windows/python works related to the
dynamic load, Brian is our explorer... :)


> Namely, the ability to dynamically link to the startup image of the
> process, i.e. the main
> executable file, rather than the DSO.
>
> In window terms, that means that dynamically linking to the *.EXE is not
> analogously
> possible to my knowledge, only to a *.DLL.
>

I'm not sure to understand what you mean exactly,

   In windows you can dynamically load DLLs after the executable is
running, at any time, as Linux can do,
is that what you mean? :-)




>
>
>
>
> >
> > 2012/10/24 Brian Sidebotham <brian.sidebotham@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:
> brian.sidebotham@xxxxxxxxx>>
> >
> >     Hi guys,
> >
> >     Last night I looked at building KiCad with scripting support. I
> merely
> >     downloaded SWIG and added it to my build environment's path variable.
> >
> >     A python install was detected by find_package(PythonLibs) so that was
> >     good. Everything builds correctly as far as I can tell, but I don't
> >     appear to be able to get a board instance from python.
> >
> >     I paid attention to Miguel's note not to have the python lib in the
> >     same directory as the PCBNEW executable, but I only ever get None
> >     returned for GetBoard() in python.
> >
> >     I've not used SWIG interfaces before so I'm unsure how to go about
> >     debugging the interface between python and pcbnew.
> >
> >     How can I tell if the PCBNEW lib is connected to the open PCBNEW or
> not?
> >
> >     Thanks for any hints!
> >
> >     Best Regards, Brian.
> >
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> > Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo
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Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo
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