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StefanSchippers / xschem

A schematic editor for VLSI/Asic/Analog custom designs, netlist backends for VHDL, Spice and Verilog. The tool is focused on hierarchy and parametric designs, to maximize circuit reuse.
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Ability to rotate/flip during "xschem place_symbol" command #193

Closed georgtree closed 2 months ago

georgtree commented 2 months ago

Hello! It would be a nice feature to have an ability to rotate/flip symbols during xschem place_symbol command, now it is necessary place symbol first and only then we can rotate it. Thank you in advance.

StefanSchippers commented 2 months ago

While placing the symbol you can press Shift-R to rotate of Shift-F / Shift-V to flip the component before clicking the mouse to complete the placement.

If you want a complete programmatic way to place a symbol (no user interactive / gui action) see the xschem instance command.

georgtree commented 2 months ago

It is strange, but I can't do it not from component browser nor from my own palette with this command...is there any switches that prevent this?

StefanSchippers commented 2 months ago

Press Insert to bring up the component browser, click one component, in the drawing window press Shift-F or Shift-R to flip / rotate.

If that does not work you are probably unable to flip / rotate any component in a schematic and this is strange.

https://github.com/StefanSchippers/xschem/assets/69359491/6b8d4f12-f8c3-47b4-9bdd-b79422191ae5

georgtree commented 2 months ago

It works from insert, but not from the component browser window, or when I call procedure from my own gui

StefanSchippers commented 2 months ago

What are exactly the operations you do to bring up the component browser and the following actions?

georgtree commented 2 months ago

Open component browser -> select component there -> bring component to the xschem window -> press shift+R

georgtree commented 2 months ago

Ah, I found an issue - there was no focus at xschem window, I have to bring focus back by pressing to main window frame... I think the issue is in this option: set component_browser_on_top 1 sorry, issue was resolved

StefanSchippers commented 2 months ago

Ah ok, There is a setting in xschemrc: set autofocus_mainwindow 1 (if you don't have this setting it is already enabled) that is supposed to focus the main window when entering it. However this does not work universally as the window manager is the ultimate culprit when there are focus issues.