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From: Kenneth M. <km...@ci...> - 2006-09-21 03:14:59
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I thought I better send something on this list to let people know that the project is still moving forward. PCB functionality is increasing daily. I think the one feature I would like to add before releasing 0.2.0 is a proper track routing routine. I've just refactored the mouse listener for the EdaDrawingPane. This doesn't yet add much - if any - functionality but it has paved the way for new features. The old mouse listener was quite messy and it could not be enhanced without adding code to it instead of subclassing. Now it has been replace with one simple listener which uses what I've called TaskHandlers to do the work. Basically that's an interface (abstract class actually) for responding to user mouse input without having to write from scratch each time new functionality is needed or know the gory inner-details of the EdaDrawingPane. It seems to work quite well so far. There are still some peculiarities with how rotating and flipping objects undo when you're moving or adding a part, but these are small details I think. As soon as it seems like an actual design could be attempted, I will. In the meantime I have an idea of what my first project will be and the test files and libraries will move towards this as I test things out. There may be a bit of a hiccough while I plumb the net features together between schematics and PCBs. Right now, the various objects that care about nets have properties for them, but that's basically the extent of it. There used to be netlist generation capability, but I'm sure that's broken at the moment due to the newer use of pins for symbol connections. I have not thought about the rendering of rat's nests yet either. One thing at a time. Anyway, cheers for now. Kenneth. |
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From: Kenneth M. <km...@ci...> - 2006-05-18 05:49:00
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Hi, I added a new list last week to talk about development stuff. I thought I better let everyone know. Cheers, Kenneth. |
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From: Kenneth M. <km...@ci...> - 2006-04-28 15:14:09
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After more than a year of being busy and doing nothing on the project, we've started again. So far there has been a ton of cleanup and now work on the PCB end of things has begun. Already it's easy to imaging where things are going by playing with CircuitSmith. There is also an import feature for gEDA schematic libraries and many examples of imported libraries. Right now we're just working in the CVS; I hope there will be a new release in the next month or so. This should include basic PCB functionality although it probably won't be linked to the schematic yet. That will be the next step. Cheers, Kenneth. |
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From: <ben...@id...> - 2004-05-25 08:41:36
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Dear Open Source developer I am doing a research project on "Fun and Software Development" in which I kindly invite you to participate. You will find the online survey under http://fasd.ethz.ch/qsf/. The questionnaire consists of 53 questions and you will need about 15 minutes to complete it. With the FASD project (Fun and Software Development) we want to define the motivational significance of fun when software developers decide to engage in Open Source projects. What is special about our research project is that a similar survey is planned with software developers in commercial firms. This procedure allows the immediate comparison between the involved individuals and the conditions of production of these two development models. Thus we hope to obtain substantial new insights to the phenomenon of Open Source Development. With many thanks for your participation, Benno Luthiger PS: The results of the survey will be published under http://www.isu.unizh.ch/fuehrung/blprojects/FASD/. We have set up the mailing list fa...@we... for this study. Please see http://fasd.ethz.ch/qsf/mailinglist_en.html for registration to this mailing list. _______________________________________________________________________ Benno Luthiger Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich 8092 Zurich Mail: benno.luthiger(at)id.ethz.ch _______________________________________________________________________ |
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From: Kenneth M. <km...@us...> - 2004-02-07 04:46:25
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Hi everyone, There's a new release. The main thing to notice is the addition of simulation stuff. Currently, you can run a simulation from a schematic (try "spice test.cpf") but that's all. A simulation pane opens, but it doesn't do anything yet. With some luck a thread starts, writes a netlist file, calls spice and parses the results. Check out the console output. Cheers, Kenneth. |
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From: Kenneth M. <km...@us...> - 2003-12-28 06:09:22
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This is it. We've finally got to the V0.1.0 release. This is not to say that CircuitSmith is a useful program yet, but that Schematic Capture is possible after a fashion. This is not even to say that the schematic end of things is complete, only that is is complete enough to move on to development in other areas of the code. I hope you give it a good workout and let me know any bugs you find. There are also plenty of additional features which you might want to point out. I have not decided yet if I should push on immediately to PCB features or to quickly provide Spice facilities. Does anyone have any preferences? I'm leaning towards Spice now - again - because it should be pretty quick and easy. Cheers, Kenneth. |
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From: Kenneth M. <km...@us...> - 2003-12-11 02:28:21
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I'm working my way to the V0.1.0 release. There are a bunch of bug fixes; the test files are more complete and there are a few more features. The next release should be out shortly, then I'll start working on PCB functionality. Cheers, Kenneth. |
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From: Kenneth M. <km...@us...> - 2003-11-27 04:03:58
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This version has the ability to change fonts of text in schematics now. It also has a bunch of little fixes and changes. I have not fixed the pan/zoom issues. I've not figured out a good way to do this yet. Cheers, Kenneth. |
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From: Kenneth M. <km...@us...> - 2003-11-15 22:41:14
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Hi everyone, There are a bunch of new icons, thanks to Dave Gullacher. Also, documents in a library are now read-only. There are a few bug fixes and other stuff which I can't remember. Cheers, Kenneth. |
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From: Kenneth M. <km...@us...> - 2003-11-08 05:43:09
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I've just put out the next release. I've been doing some work on printing. I noticed that EdaGrids did not render properly when the Graphics object included a shift. I've also been playing with the test files. Cheers, Kenneth. |
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From: Kenneth M. <km...@us...> - 2003-10-26 22:38:08
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Hi everyone, I've just released a new version. There are a bunch of fixes which you may not notice. Basically I pretended like I could do useful stuff with the program by trying to rework the test files. This flushed out a bunch of errors and bugs. I've squashed most of these but I'm sure there's more. There are three test files now. "test.cpf" is the same as before. "test2.cpf" is a demo of a project with a library "testlibrary.cpf". You can also open "testlibrary.cpf" to see how that works. Cheers, Kenneth. |
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From: Kenneth M. <km...@us...> - 2003-10-19 05:41:16
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I know it has only been a tick since the last release. I got libraries working so I thought it best to get this version out as soon as possible. Check out test2.cpf for an example. Cheers, Kenneth. |
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From: Kenneth M. <km...@us...> - 2003-10-18 09:01:20
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We're getting closer and closer to V0.1.0! This version is almost useful. Check out test.cpf for examples. Let me know what you think. Cheers, Kenneth. |
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From: Kenneth M. <km...@us...> - 2003-10-15 14:23:42
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I released version 0.0.27 last night. I had a couple of stupid bugs which I had to clean up. Even still, I haven't done extensive testing. Fill yer boots! Kenneth. |
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From: Kenneth M. <km...@us...> - 2003-10-14 02:55:32
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I've just released version 0.0.26 and updated a bit of the web page as well as added more bug reports. The biggest change is the addition of an Ant build file. This simplifies the build process considerably. It also makes it easier to generate javadocs and jar files. Thanks to Steve Kelem for writing the build file! I've done quite a bit of testing and found all sorts of problems. On the bright side though I finally fixed the EdaSelectGroup bug which made the objects in the group not maintain their relative position - amongst other things - when the group was moved and rotated. It still has trouble when the group is flipped but I can't be bothered to correct this just now. The big bug now is that when a symbol is copied and pasted it does not put a new part in the part list. I have not thought much about this, but it seems like a logical error which I will have to think about. Cheers, Kenneth. |
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From: Kenneth M. <km...@us...> - 2003-10-05 01:57:06
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I thought I'd use this oportunity to both try out this list and also to inform anyone who's listening of the newly released V0.0.25 of CircuitSmith. Is anyone out there? Cheers, Kenneth. |
