Re: [Xcircuit-dev] stuck in the tutorial

[R. T. E. <ti...@mu...>]

Dear Don,

> I'm trying to learn xcircuit by going through the turorial, but I'm 
> stuck.  The tutorial mentions ctrl-p to look at the parameters of an 
> object, but it doesn't work (saying control_p is not bound to a macro). 
>> From the menus: Options->Elements->Parameters never gives any 
> information either.  What am I missing?

Control-P is not bound to a macro---it's bound to a TCL procedure in the
TCL-based version of xcircuit.  I didn't duplicate the function in the
non-TCL version.  In the non-TCL version, you can only view or change
parameters if they happen to be part of a label, or if they are numeric
parameters affecting physical properties of an element (what you get
from the Options->Elements->Parameters menu;  these are not used very
often).

I've been working over the last week on updating the web page, including
the tutorials, so if you see anything that should be rewritten for
correctness or clarity, just let me know.

					Regards,
					Tim

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