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

Yes, that's got me sorted, thanks very much.  The pointer to
cross_probing.cpp was exactly what I needed.

On Thu, 8 Feb 2018 at 19:28 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Tom,
>
> Did answering your question resolve the questions you asked below?  I
> apologize for being brief but I'm really busy trying to get a new stable
> release of KiCad out so please be patient.
>
> Wayne
>
> On 2/4/2018 11:48 AM, Tom Cook 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
> >
> >
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