Re: [Ngspice-users] Schematic entry for ngspice

[Svenn A. B. <sve...@go...>]

On 3 October 2013 21:54, Stuart Brorson <sd...@cl...> wrote:

> http://www.brorson.com/gEDA/SPICE/intro.html
>
>
> On Thu, 3 Oct 2013, Martin Schreiber wrote:
>
> > On Thursday 03 October 2013 19:07:40 Stuart Brorson wrote:
> >> gEDA/gschem with any of the SPICE back ends.  For example, spice-sdb.
> >>
> > I asked on geda-user how to setup gschem to generate spice netlists with
> a
> > simple menu or button click or a key shortcut but got no answer. Do you
> know
> > how it could be achieved?
> >
>

Got the source for MSEspice from git on sourceforge, but couldn't find out
how to compile so I installed the prebuild for Linux. Quite amazing work, I
must say. If I compare to LTSpice, I like how you solve the plotting and
the fact that you have chosen multiple windows instead of stacked tabs.
Great for multiple monitors.

I have been following gEDA since almost the very beginning and I don't
think gschem it is the right tool to integrate in this kind of application.
It fits better in a framework type application where communication either
happens through the lisp dialect guile, or on the command line through
makefiles or shell scripts.

Open source schematic capture I have used which comes to my mind are:
xcircuit -- tcl/tk and xlib
qucs -- qt3 (maybe qt4)
electric -- java
kicad -- wxwidget

>From what I see, I can't recomend any of the above tools as schematic
capture for MSEspice, but maybe the concepts can give some ideas what to
achieve.

>From the source I downloaded, I guess that the program is written in pascal

Tools written in pascal which I have tried to compile but failed
turbocircuit -- pascal
objecteda -- pascal

Have you considered to write from scratch? It could be the best solution in
the long run.

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Svenn