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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/17/2016 8:57 PM, Ian Roth wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 10:17 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto: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? 

It wont happen until after the new schematic and symbol library file
formats are complete.  My goal is to finish that up during the Christmas
break but so far everything has taken longer than expected.