Place more than one (same !) PCB at the time

[danmcb]

for anyone that wants to play with it, here is the perl script. It is very basic! It doesn't even ask command line arguments yet, just expects files to exist with the right filenames ... but it's a start

[RinusDamen]

Hello Daniel,
Were can I find or download your script? I want to try the script with the file I gave you previously.

[danmcb]

hmmm. I thought I attached it to the last post. I'll try again. If this doesn't work, I'll mail you ...!

OK, extension not allowed. Here it is then. This was written on windows. On unix/linux, you should add the shebang line, but I think most people here will run it on windows. I recommend Strawberry Perl, but ActiveState should work too.

====
use strict;
use warnings;

my @headings;
my @boards;

my $compfile = "components.txt";
my $boardsfile = "boards.txt";
my $outfile = "multiply.txt";
my $count = 0;

print "PROCESSING BOARDS from $boardsfile\n\n";
open (my $bf, "<", $boardsfile) or die "Could not open $boardsfile - $!";
while (my $board = <$bf>){
$count++;
chomp $board;
my @rxy = split(' ', $board);
my $fields = scalar @rxy;
unless ($fields == 3) {
die "line $count of $boardsfile has $fields fields, expected 3";
}
push @boards, \@rxy;
print "Added board ref:\t".$rxy[0]."\tX:\t".$rxy[1]."\tY=\t".$rxy[2]."\n";
}
close $bf;
print "$count boards added.\n\n";

$count = 0;

open (my $out, ">", $outfile);
print "PROCESSING COMPONENTS from $compfile\n\n";
open (my $cf, "<", $compfile) or die "Could not open $compfile - $!";
while (my $component = <$cf>){
$count++;
chomp $component;
next if $component =~ /^-/;

my @values;
if ($count == 1){ #process header line
@headings = split(' ', $component);

unless ( grep( /^X$/, @headings) &&
grep( /^Y$/, @headings) &&
grep( /^Component$/, @headings)){
print "$component\n";
close $out;
close $cf;
die "Line 1 (header) of $compfile must contain 'X' and 'Y' (in upper case), and 'Component'.\n";
}
print $out "$component\n";

} else { #process component
@values = split(' ', $component);
unless ( scalar @values == scalar @headings ){
print "$component\n";
die "wrong number of values at line $count of $compfile";
}

# now print a component line for each board

for ( my $b = 0; $b < scalar @boards; $b++){
my $board = $boards[$b]; # array ref

for ( my $hpos =0; $hpos < scalar @headings; $hpos++){
my $h = $headings[$hpos];
my $v = $values[$hpos];
if ($h eq 'Component'){
$v .= "_";
$v .= $board->[0];
} elsif ($h eq 'X') {
$v = $v + $board->[1];
} elsif ($h eq 'Y') {
$v = $v + $board->[2];
}
print $out "$v\t";
}
print $out "\n";
}
}
}
close $cf;
close $out;

[danmcb]

Rinus, I also mailed it to you.

[RinusDamen]

thanks, I found it in my mailbox, it will take some time for me to get used to the 'perl-world' I never used it before.
I guess it's not possible to compile the script to an windows executable?

[JuKu]

> OK, extension not allowed.

Hmm. As far as I can see, no restrictions are active. I don't know why it wouldn't work.

[danmcb]

thanks, I found it in my mailbox, it will take some time for me to get used to the 'perl-world' I never used it before.
I guess it's not possible to compile the script to an windows executable?

It is, but it would still be command line. And to be honest I have never bothered. All you need to do:

1. install strawberry perl
2. put the script in a folder somewhere
3. put your p&p file in that same folder, rename it "components.txt"
4. write your "boards.txt" file in that folder with notepad or some other plain text editor
5. on a command line in that folder type "panelise.pl" (or you might be able to just double click the script)
6. That should create (silently deleting any file of the same name that was there before) a file called "multiply.txt" with the output.

like I said, it's very basic, but if the concept works I can make it a bit "prettier" later. Or whatever ...

[danmcb]

> OK, extension not allowed.

Hmm. As far as I can see, no restrictions are active. I don't know why it wouldn't work.

maybe in the webserver config? sometimes they don't like the look of scripts anyway, no big deal. Let's try renaming ... also "The extension txt is not allowed" for "panelise-pl.txt" ... and also "The extension is not allowed"when I try "panelise-pl" ... ok, whatever. Your BB software hates me

[JuKu]

I'm supposed to be in control... Are the machines finally taking over?

[PeterST]