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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/4/2014 1:44 PM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> I would like to get some answers to Cirilo's quesitons. I have
> successfully been using the attached patch, just to make the kicad app
> render the icons and open correctly for all gerber files in the tree.
> 
> Nick
> 
> 
> 2014-01-11 3:53 GMT+01:00 Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo_bernardo@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:cirilo_bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>>:
> 
>     I've been looking into the issue of the main kicad GUI not
>     associating GB?, GT? files with Gerbview and I have a few
>     observations and questions:
> 
>     1. the string GerberFileExtension is currently defined in
>     common/wildcards_and_files_ext.cpp but it is only used in the kicad
>     main app.
> 
>     2. likewise, GerberFileWildCard is defined in the same file and only
>     used in the main app.
> 
>     3. in
>     kicad/tree_project_frame.{cpp,h}, TREE_PROJECT_FRAME::GetFileWildcard does
>     not appear to be used anywhere in the KiCad tree.
> 
> 
>     My questions:
> 
>     1. Current definition of GerberFileExtension is:
> 
>     const wxString GerberFileExtension( wxT( "pho" ) );
> 
>     If I change it to this line:
> 
>     const wxString GerberFileExtension( wxT(
>     ".((gbr|(gb|gt)[alops])|pho)" ) );
> 
>     then the kicad main app correctly associates the various gerber file
>     extensions with gerbview.
>     Is is a good idea to make this change? After all, only
>     TREE_PROJECT_FRAME in kicad/ makes use of it.
> 
>     1b. The leading '.' in the string is essential since the string is
>     used to form a regexp by adding it to a regexp string beginning with
>     "^.*\" In fact, I wonder if the regexp part (line 497 of
>     tree_project_frame.cpp):
> 
>                 reg.Compile( wxString::FromAscii( "^.*\\" ) + ext +
>                              wxString::FromAscii( "$" ), wxRE_ICASE );
> 
>     should actually be:
> 
>                 reg.Compile( wxString::FromAscii( "^.*\\." ) + ext +
>                              wxString::FromAscii( "$" ), wxRE_ICASE );
> 
>     This way we are assured that there is a '.' before the extension.
>     Any comments?
> 
> 
>     2. Since no other app makes use
>     of GerberFileExtension/GerberFileWildCard, should we simply move
>     these definitions to tree_project_frame.cpp ?
> 
> 
>     3. Is TREE_PROJECT_FRAME::GetFileWildcard cruft which can be removed
>     or is it part of code in development?
> 
>     Cheers,
>     Cirilo
> 

Patch committed in product branch revision r4736.  Thanks Cirilo.