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User-definable context menus

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EAGLE 6.1 supports user-definable context menus, which is nice, but I

don't see any possibility in USING them decently, due to the following

problem:

  1. A context menu based on a certain object type is only useful

     if the desired action knows the clicked OBJECT (and not only the

     TYPE).

  2. E.g., if I display the context menu of a part called N12, I

     obviously want to do something with N12. Therefore, I must get

     the information 'N12' from somewhere.

  3. The SET command for context menus allows the definition of

     standard EAGLE syntax, but how do I get, e.g., the name of the

     clicked component into this syntax?

  4. If this is not possible with the SET command, is this somehow

     possible with ULPs? I haven't found anything useful in the

     manual or the online help, but perhaps I missed something.

  5. If this is NOT possible, user-defined context menus would only be

     able to access ALL objects of the same type on the same sheet,

     which seems a bit useless to me...

 

Andreas Weidner

 

  • Andreas Weidner wrote:

    EAGLE 6.1 supports user-definable context menus, which is nice, but I

    don't see any possibility in USING them decently, due to the following

    problem:

      1. A context menu based on a certain object type is only useful

         if the desired action knows the clicked OBJECT (and not only the

         TYPE).

      2. E.g., if I display the context menu of a part called N12, I

         obviously want to do something with N12. Therefore, I must get

         the information 'N12' from somewhere.

      3. The SET command for context menus allows the definition of

         standard EAGLE syntax, but how do I get, e.g., the name of the

         clicked component into this syntax?

      4. If this is not possible with the SET command, is this somehow

         possible with ULPs? I haven't found anything useful in the

         manual or the online help, but perhaps I missed something.

      5. If this is NOT possible, user-defined context menus would only be

         able to access ALL objects of the same type on the same sheet,

         which seems a bit useless to me...

     

    Andreas Weidner

     

     

     

    I would be useful if the code that determined the context (ie nearest wire,

    element ...etc) also passed to the UserLanguage an array that could be

    queried for the closest objects of each type. Elements would require names,

    but wires would require coordinates.

    Importantly  the cursor XY should be available in that array . It is already

    available as it is used to reposition the cursor after the context menu

    closes. (if option =1)

     

    In this way ULPs could easily:

    1)  attain the cursor position when launched via the user-definable context

    menu.

    2)  attain the nearest Element or other objects, to the mouse click

     

    Warren

     

     

     

     

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