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[Ian Roth <imr2107@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 10:17 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> On 11/2/2016 9:25 PM, Ian Roth wrote:
> > I am working on an I/O plugin for eeschema and I would like to save
> > wires in order of netlist, for example:
> >
> > netlist1
> >   -wire1
> >   -wire2
> > netlist2
> >   -wire3
> >   -wire4
>
> What is your reasoning for doing this?  I could be wrong but I don't
> think this would be a good idea for users who use a VCS to track their
> designs.  When the netlist gets rebuilt, there is no guarantee that the
> wires assigned to a net will not get reordered by netlist generator.
> This would create a large delta when saving the schematic.  To make this
> VCS friendly, you would have to ensure consistent net naming when
> generating the netlist which could be pretty complicated.
>

The reason is that I need a way of quickly drawing schematics for RF
systems and exporting them as javascript for rendering in a web browser. I
would not mind exporting the netlist at the same time as the schematic.

>
> >
> > It looks like the schematic I/O manager passes the screen, but not the
> > SCH_EDIT_FRAME that contains the netlist functions to the plugin save
> > function. Is it possible to get the netlist in the plugin in order to
> > sort the wires?
>
> This will not happen.  Adding any wxWindow knowledge to the schematic
> I/O plugin is a poor design practice.  At some point (hopefully soon), I
> will start working on a coherent SCHEMATIC object which will act as a
> container for the entire schematic.  This will be the object that allows
> you to generate the netlist, not SCH_EDIT_FRAME.
>

Your solution sounds like it would work for my needs. Do you have an
estimate on when the coherent schematic object will be in the kicad source?

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