Mail Archives: geda-user/2015/07/28/20:54:54
> I still don't quite get it. Can't the GUI fire a file chooser and
> collect what other option the user chooses? It then calls the gerber
> HID and passes the file name and options as parameters. Just like my
> bash script does. Actually, this is how I always thought export in the
> GTK-GUI works. Seems like I was wrong.
The GUI gets a list of attributes that need to be filled in. It's not
"I need a gerber, so choose a file, then call the gerber exporter";
it's "I need to export, so call the gerber exporter, it tells me I
need to choose a file."
The list of attributes might not include any file names, it might
require several. For *each* attribute that's a file/path, you need to
let the user choose a file.
> > We could, if someone wanted to, and figured out to integrate that
> > flag into the UI.
>
> Add a column of check boxes to the table in File->Preferences->Groups
> Let the user check which layers should be considered as copper.
> That was easy :-)
Did you do all three GUIs? ;-)
> > Of course, those with the time to do so (few)
> > usually prefer a more general solution than that.
>
> Hmm, I understand the reasoning. But unless my memory fails, there was
> talk about a general solution being necessary but too much work at
> least since back in 2008.
Yup.
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