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Re: Caching/storimg datasheets in KiCad for offline use?

 

In response to a message written on 23.09.2015, 01:28, from Andy Peters:

On Sep 22, 2015, at 2:14 PM, Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Good lord. You know you can just store datasheets in a directory on your
file system, right? The same way people have stored things on computers
for decades. Your computer /already has this functionality/.

Yeah, like who _doesn’t_ have a big directory tree starting with
“datasheets” and then a long long list of vendors and within each vendor
maybe a bunch of categories …

Why does the tool need to do EVERYTHING?
So to have the computer read all the world datasheets and he was planning
schemes… Why do you want nothing to do? ;)
It might be some programically impossible to guess element's category. Producer
may be cataloged by download domain, but downloads in example from
datasheetarchive.com may be not recognized.
Of course is possible to make some downloader, which accepts URL drag and drop.
Any volunteer may base on my work:
https://github.com/LordBlick/videoBasket
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Best Regards,
LordBlick


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