adamws
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1 year ago It removes the need for a kle-serial compatible json. It has it's own serializer/deserializer code.
back when I started this project I was also considering writing my own de-serialized and decided against it. It was less work and in theory this plugin will be still compatible with keyboard-layout-editor if it changes internal representation.
I admit it is a bit inconvenient for user and since ijprest's project are pretty much dead at this point it perhaps makes more sense to have own implementation.
In the other hand I do have converter hosted here: http://keyboard-tools.xyz/kle-converter so this conversion shouldn't be that difficult for the user. Maybe supporting both formats would be the best option.
There's also some stuff which lets you customize rotations, do multi-layout, support more complicated layouts with rotation
nice :+1:
and also specify diode location
this feature is on my todo since day one. I like your approach of using first switch/diode as reference for placement.
This project was on hold for a long time but it gained my attention recently. I added v6 compatibility and submitted it to official kicad's plugin repository. I plan to continue implementing new stuff at my own pace but I'm open to contributions.
Just thought I'd mention and bring light to my take on this plugin here.
It removes the need for a kle-serial compatible json. It has it's own serializer/deserializer code. There's also some stuff which lets you customize rotations, do multi-layout, support more complicated layouts with rotation, and also specify diode location.
Disclaimer, I did use a lot of the logic from this project while I was making it (yours wasn't updated to V6 at the time).
(If this interests you, I also have this, which is where the serialization code first came from)