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[Tomasz Wlostowski <tomasz.wlostowski@xxxxxxx>]

On 07.01.2015 11:36, PTT wrote:
> Dear all,
> First of all thanks for all the good work, I recently switched to KiCAD
> because of the added scripting support which I needed for scripted button
> placement on a pcb.
> 

Hi Piers,

Very nice work, thanks! IMHO C++ APIs SWIGgged directly to python are
rather big and inelegant and such a wrapper makes writing scripts much
easier!

Are you intending to continue working on your wrapper? I vote for
including it in future Kicad releases along with some examples. Miguel,
Wayne - would you agree?

Cheers,
Tom



> To make it easier to get my work done I made some convenience functions and
> classes wrapping the swig api to have a cleaner interface.
> 
> Please have a look and see if it is useful to somehow incorporate it in the
> main branch.
> 
> pcbnew_easy.py
> https://gist.github.com/pierstitus/7be2d9923da502c88ff1
> 
> There is a simple usage example, to run put the file on your path, (or add
> the path with sys.path.append("...path_to_file..."))
> open the pcbnew console and enter
>>>> import pcbnew_easy
>>>> pcbnew_easy.test()
> (the screen is only updating on moving)
> 
> Piers
> 
> 
> 
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