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hohlraum / gdsCAD

A simple but powerful Python package for creating photolithography masks in the GDSII format.
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GdsImport does not support texttype #20

Closed tom-varga closed 9 years ago

tom-varga commented 9 years ago

Is it correct that GdsImport does not currently support texttype? I see in the code some commented out lines that refer to texttype. The texttype is used in all chip layouts. Would supporting texttype be something relatively easy to add? Thanks, -Tom

hohlraum commented 9 years ago

Hi Tom,

This was caused by a combination of bad docs (in gdsCAD texttype=datatype) and a bug (that used texttype as an argument). Commit c2b1e6a1d7 should fix both. Thanks for bringing this up.

GdsImport does support Text objects. However the texttype record is converted in gdsCAD to the datatype attribute. It is similarly converted on save to texttype which will be understood by other programs. There should not be any conflicts in equating texttype with datatype since no drawing element possesses both.

tom-varga commented 9 years ago

Andrew, thanks for so quickly looking into this for me! I'm a github newbie and would really appreciate a bit of help with trying to pull your update. I think this is the way to do it, but it doesn't work for me.

mkdir gdsCAD cd !$ git clone https://github.com/hohlraum/gdsCAD.git git pull origin master

However, the 'git clone' doesn't do anything for me. Would you be so kind as to how to get your latest c2b1e6a commit? Thanks, -Tom

tom-varga commented 9 years ago

Andrew, please ignore my prior query. Apparently, my version of git was quietly dumping core. Switching to an older version fixed my problem. Thanks, -Tom