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As I see the problem either change is sent immidiately to the other program or there must be mechanism to tell if a change should be forward annotated or back annotated, this might be done manually with button/scripts/...

On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 16:31:52 +0200 (CEST)
gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu wrote:

> 
> 
> On Mon, 31 Aug 2015, Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> 
> > This might be a good place to throw GPMI in again. Like I have said in
> > other threads scheme needs to be phased out.
> 
> 
> The most problematic part of my back annotation plans is how to get gschem 
> to do what I want. I was considering using GPMI in "parasite" mode: 
> injecting the whole thing as an LD_PRELOAD lib at the GTK API.
> 
> Pros: 0 modification in gschem, still can hook init, uninit, the main 
> loop and random gtk API, separate code base.
> 
> Cons: I can not hook in function calls where gschem code is calling gschem 
> C functions or scheme code calling gschem C functions. One of the minor 
> features I'd need to add would be a way to add an extra mark or highlight 
> on some object, like pins, to mark they are in netlist mismatch due to 
> back annotation. I could easily find the part of the pin drawing code 
> where I'd need to add a 2 or 3 lines. I could easily wrap this function in 
> another that calls it and then does the extra steps for the extra 
> highlighting. But this method wouldn't work for internal gschem->gschem 
> calls.
> 
> So GPMI alone wouldn't solve my main problem here; once my main problem is 
> solved, the rest could be done in plain C, with or without GPMI.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Igor2