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[Tom Cook <tom.k.cook@xxxxxxxxx>]

Or, I guess, possibility 4, this is not possible?

Thanks,
Tom

On Sun, 4 Feb 2018 at 16:48 Tom Cook <tom.k.cook@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm developing a small Python application for tracking component inventory
> & to help when assembling boards.  I'd like to be able to display a portion
> of the board layout with a particular component centred.  This could either
> be in my application window or in a separate window, I'm not too worried
> which.  The display doesn't necessarily need to be interactive, though the
> ability to pan & zoom would be nice to have.
>
> What's the most straightforward way to do this in pcbnew currently?
>
> I can see three possibilities:
>
> 1.  I think it's possible to launch pcbnew as a separate process and send
> it messages to focus a particular component through KiWay.  Could someone
> confirm that this is possible in a separate process and perhaps point me
> towards some documentation or example code for how to do this in python.
>
> 2.  I think it's possible for a python process to be the 'top' for pcbnew
> - so I should be able to load pcbnew in my python process and display the
> UI and send it in-process KiWay messages.  Could someone confirm that this
> is possible and again perhaps point me towards documentation or examples?
>
> 3.  I'm not sure if it's possible to load a board using the python
> pcbnew.LoadBoard() and then render a portion of it in-memory, which I could
> then display in my application.  Is this possible?
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Tom Cook
>