Is there an index of all ULPs?

On 8/9/2013 1:08 PM, Doug Wellington wrote:

I've been trying to wade through the ULPs that have been uploaded to the

Cadsoft FTP site, but there really doesn't seem to be any kind of

organization.

 

Is there an index or a category list for available ULPs or is the

"Search for ULP" box the only option available?

 

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Hi Doug,

There's no nicely organized index of the ULPs that are up on the

website, it pretty much a big box with ULPs thrown in. The Search for

ULP box is the best thing right now. I've also used my browsers find

function with success as well.

hth,

Jorge Garcia

Cadsoft Support

Thanks Jorge, that's what I suspected.

So, I'm wondering...  I see in another thread that someone has made some python scripts that somehow plug in to EAGLE.  Is that only for EAGLE 6?  I work with Python all the time at the day job, so I bet I could program something that would organize ULPs that way.

I'm about to give up on Apple, so it's looking like I'm going to buy a PC soon that will be capable of running EAGLE 6...

On 8/9/2013 5:38 PM, Doug Wellington wrote:

Thanks Jorge, that's what I suspected.

 

So, I'm wondering...  I see in another thread that someone has made some

python scripts that somehow plug in to EAGLE.  Is that only for EAGLE

6?  I work with Python all the time at the day job, so I bet I could

program something that would organize ULPs that way.

 

I'm about to give up on Apple, so it's looking like I'm going to buy a

PC soon that will be capable of running EAGLE 6...

 

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Hi Doug,

Since Robin, hasn't released any code yet I can't say 100% however from

what the user has mentioned it seems like it should work with V5. V6

only introduced a few new ULP functions so the majority of what he has

done should work on V5 only if you're calling a new function would I

expect any problems.

hth,

Jorge Garcia

Since Robin, hasn't released any code yet I can't say 100% however from

what the user has mentioned it seems like it should work with V5. V6

only introduced a few new ULP functions so the majority of what he has

done should work on V5 only if you're calling a new function would I

expect any problems.

Ah, you know, I had never looked at the command texts before.  Love EAGLE, there's always something new to learn about it!

Now I just have to figure out how to call python or ruby from a ULP and generate a SCR file with it.  Is that how it's done?

How does Robin keep the alignment GUI displayed and still send commands to EAGLE?  Wouldn't it have to terminate to call a script?

On 8/12/2013 6:23 PM, Doug Wellington wrote:

Since Robin, hasn't released any code yet I can't say 100% however

from

what the user has mentioned it seems like it should work with V5. V6

 

only introduced a few new ULP functions so the majority of what he has

 

done should work on V5 only if you're calling a new function would I

 

expect any problems.

 

Ah, you know, I had never looked at the command texts before.  Love

EAGLE, there's always something new to learn about it!

 

Now I just have to figure out how to call python or ruby from a ULP and

generate a SCR file with it.  Is that how it's done?

The system() function allows EAGLE to pass commands on to the OS. This

is how the LTSPICE ulp calls LTSpice it could just as easily be used to

call any other program on your machine.

 

How does Robin keep the alignment GUI displayed and still send commands

to EAGLE?  Wouldn't it have to terminate to call a script?

That would be one for Robin.

 

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After my initial post, I decided to create my own index of ULPs, so I downloaded all of the files from the ftp site (ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/eagle/userfiles/ulp/) and sorted them into categories.  Then I set up an automated task to check for new ULPs on the ftp site each week.

Well, nothing has changed since I started that script, so I looked a bit closer.  Looks like uploads are not put onto the ftp site and the newest file there dates from Halloween of 2011.  D'oh!

So, now I'm downloading files from http://www.cadsoftusa.com/downloads/ulps.  The problem with that is there only seems to be an index.html file there with links to a bunch of other stuff, so a "wget -r" command looks like it is retrieving the entire site!  Ugh.

The answer seems to be that I'm going to have to parse out the links from the html at www.cadsoftusa.com/downloads/ulps and retrieve each file individually.  Is there an easier way?