Release notes for the gEDA/gaf 1.1.2.20070818 development snapshot

This development snapshot includes a non-modal multi-attribute dialog box, the return of support for guile 1.6.x, component selector improvements, preview widget improvements, removal of a few memory leaks, lots of code cleanup, and the usual slew bug fixes.

Note: This is a development snapshot and should not be packaged by distribution package maintainers.

Changes

• Fixed a nasty bug that was causing gsymcheck's make check to randomly fail (Ales Hvezda)
• Moved 3 rc promotion keywords from gschem into libgeda (fix for bug#1748143) (Ales Hvezda)
• Added dist-license and use-license to the attribute-name keyword (Ales Hvezda)
• Updated documentation snapshot from the live wiki (Ales Hvezda)
• libgeda's shared library version is now 30:2:0 (Ales Hvezda)
• Added undo-panzoom keyword to control if pan/zoom cmds are undoable. This is not functioning correctly yet. (Ales Hvezda)
• Applied patch to use $(GROFF) instead of which groff (Bernd Jendrisse)
• Removed spurious whitespace from header file. (Bernd Jendrisse)
• Fixed transpositions, typos, and random spelling errors. (Bernd Jendrisse)
• Added doxygen comment to o_text_add() (Bernd Jendrisse)
• Disable rotating while copying, & fix hitting rotate hotkey/menu while moving. (Carlos Nieves)
• Updated Spanish translation. (Carlos Nieves)
• gattrib: Reorganized file opening code (Ivan Stankovic)
• gattrib: Removed unneeded globals (Ivan Stankovic)
• gattrib: Overhauled menu creation code (Ivan Stankovic)
• gattrib: Removed unused pixmaps.h (Ivan Stankovic)
• Moved menu callbacks to x_window.c (Ivan Stankovic)
• gattrib: More dialog cleanup (Ivan Stankovic)
• gattrib: Removed unused code from x_gtksheet.c (Ivan Stankovic)
• Fixed memory leak placing components. (Peter Clifton)
• Split out update(s) when notify::toplevel on GschemDialog is received. (Peter Clifton)
• Remove unused function e_gtk_button_new_with_icon() from x_pagesel.c (Peter Clifton)
• Added new GedaList class derived from GObject (Peter Clifton)
• Changed selection code to use a generic GedaList typecast to SELECTION. (Peter Clifton)
• Removed workaround for an unknown property with GTK 2.2 in x_multiattrib.c (Peter Clifton)
• Made the Escape key cancel editing in the multiattrib dialog. (Peter Clifton)
• Made the multi-attribute editor non-modal (Peter Clifton)
• Added missing test to allow pins to work with the multiattrib dialog (Peter Clifton)
• Separated the list and preview with a GtkHPaned in the compselect dialog. (Peter Clifton)
• Extend GschemDialog to allow hooking to save/restore internal geometry (Peter Clifton)
• Saved/restored geometry of the GtkHPaned in the component selection dialog. (Peter Clifton)
• Fixed zoom extents to work correctly first time. Closes bug #1699959. (Peter Clifton)
• Fixed mouse initiated zoom / panning operations on the preview widget (Peter Clifton)
• Made the preview widget resizable (Peter Clifton)
• Saved/restored which component selector source tab was last used. (Peter Clifton)
• Fixed some memory leaks when placing components. (Peter Clifton)
• Cleared preview and stop placing components when no valid symbol is selected. (Peter Clifton)
• Cleared the preview when no valid file is selected in the file chooser (Peter Clifton)
• Stopped scroll events warping the pointer when the preview widget is inactive (Peter Clifton)
• Altered panning code to center the page in the viewport if under-zoomed (Peter Clifton)
• Clamped page canvas size in the preview to the size of the page contents (Peter Clifton)
• Added call to g_type_init() in libgeda_init() as libgeda now uses GObject (Peter Clifton)
• Freed strings from scm_to_locale_string() with free(), not g_free() (Peter Clifton)
• Fixed two calls to free() where g_free() should have been used. (Peter Clifton)
• Fixed so that gschem doesn't blank the add attribute boxes in the Multiattrib dialog. (Peter Clifton)
• Fixed unselect code to only update colors etc. when the object was selected. (Peter Clifton)
• Updated the multi-attrib dialog after an undo operation. (Peter Clifton)
• Changed color in the multi-attrib dialog "value" entry when insensitive. (Peter Clifton)
• Changed configure.ac(.in) to allow guile-1.6 (Peter Clifton)
• Made gattrib honor the user's answer to confirm quit? on window close (Peter Clifton)
• Altered grammar in gschem's "Unsaved changes" dialog box. (Peter Clifton)
• Fixed drawing of cues after moving a single line segment (Peter Clifton)
• Removed old code commented out in o_net_consolidate_segments() (Peter Clifton)
• Refactored code in o_grips.c to reduce duplication (Peter Clifton)
• Fixed drawing artifact when dragging a net / bus to zero length. (Peter Clifton)
• Fixed to allow automatic loading of untitled backup files (Peter Clifton)
• Fixed configure checks enabling guile 1.6.x comparability routines. (Peter Clifton)
• Altered guile 1.6 compat tests to work with older autoconf versions (Peter Clifton)
• Removed old prototypes from various prototype.h where no function exists. (Peter Clifton)
• Fixed crash closing component selector window quickly after filtering. (Peter Clifton)
• Made updates faster when typing in the component selector filter. (Peter Clifton)
• Fixed component selector filtering after using the "Refresh" button. (Peter Clifton)
• Fixed memory leak where GLists weren't free'd properly after use. (Peter Clifton)
• Updated example to fix problems noted by Chitlesh. (Stuart Brorson)
• gschem: Updated German translation (Werner Hoch)
• Added new symbol attributes use-licence and dist-licence to tragesym (Werner Hoch)

Notes/Bugs/Errata/Known Issues/Last Minute Issues

• Many thanks to everybody who contributed to this snapshot. PeterC is the winner with the most checkins that made it into this release.
• Please submit all bugs to the bug tracker.

Download

• http://www.geda.seul.org/devel/v1.1/1.1.2 (USA)
• http://ftp.sunet.se/geda/devel/v1.1/1.1.2 (Europe)

Required Libraries/Programs

Required libraries:
• gtk+ ≥ 2.4.x (tested with 2.8.x).
  NOTE: gtk+ 1.2.x is no longer supported.
• guile ≥ 1.6.x (tested with 1.8.1).
  NOTE: guile 1.4.x is no longer supported. Guile 1.6.x and 1.8.x should work just fine.

Required programs:

• pkg-config ≥ 0.15.0
  NOTE: You MUST install pkg-config regardless of gtk+ version.

Optional libraries:

• LibStroke ≥ 0.5.1

Packages/Binaries/Installers

• Debian packages for unstable can be found here or using apt-get (might be slightly dated; soon to be updated).
• RPM packages for Fedora Core 6 can be found here.
• An updated gEDA Suite CD is currently being tested and will be uploaded soon.

Building/Installing/Running

There are several ways of building gEDA/gaf:

1. Download *all* the above files and the required libraries.
2. Build and install the required and optional libraries.
3. Untar all of the geda tar files in the same directory.
4. Set the prefix= variable in the Makefile
5. Run: make and set the specified variables (PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and PKG_CONFIG_PATH)
6. Run: make install
   This should complete with NO errors.
7. Run: gschem and select Help/Manual... for all available documentation.

   Before you run gschem, gnetlist, gattrib, or gsymcheck you will need to set those three environment variables, or add them to a shell startup file (.bashrc, or .bash_profile or .profile)

-OR-

1. Download all the above files and the required libraries.
2. Set the specified variables (PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and PKG_CONFIG_PATH) correctly to the place where you are installing everything.
3. Build and install the required and optional libraries.
4. Untar all of the geda tar files in the same directory.
5. Go into each directory and run:
   ./configure [ with --prefix=$HOME/geda if you wish ]
   make install

   You must build and install the packages in the following order:

   1. libgeda
   2. symbols
   3. gschem
   4. gnetlist
   5. gsymcheck
   6. gattrib
   7. utils
   8. docs
   9. examples