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[jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 01/06/2014 03:50, Cirilo Bernardo a écrit :
> I have been doing some code cleanup and debugging on the IDF code. The patch is at:
> 
> github.com/cbernardo/kicad-patches
> 
> This is mostly cleaning up in preparation for rewriting the IDF and VRML export code.
> The changes are as follows:
> 
> + implemented exception handling via throw()
> 
> + added IDF ownership compliance rules
> + added support for IDFv2 since this ancient format is still in use
> + cleaned up code to allow easy integration into a DLL; no
>   exceptions shall be thrown outside the library.
> + fixed some IDF compliance bugs
> + added various options to idf2vrml:
>   - flag '-d' to suppress default missing outline substitution
>   - flag '-z' to suppress default zero-height substitution
>   - flag '-m' to enable printout of RefDes to OBJECT mapping for diagnostics
> + added yet another IDF sample file to demonstrate the idf2vrml tool
> 
> I have tested the code with a number of IDFv2 files as well as all IDFv3 files
> which I have on hand. Unfortunately I am not able to include these IDF files
> in the samples.
> 
> If anyone wishes, I can go through nominated projects in the KiCad example
> directory and create IDF files for these if only for the purpose of
> having more demonstrations of KiCad's IDF capabilities.
> 
> I am reasonably happy with this code now and will move onto rewriting the
> IDF and VRML export code.
> 
> I would like an opinion on the export rewrite: should I implement these
> exporters as plugins? I imagine the user can simply chose 'Save As', then
> after the file selection dialog is closed the export options dialog pops open.
> 
> cheers,
> Cirilo

Committed.
Thanks.


-- 
Jean-Pierre CHARRAS