Is there a way to place kicad symbols from the cli to the current eeschema schematic?
Say I have a inventory mamagment system where I search for kicad related parts at and with a URL that points to the symbols file I’d it to add the symbols to the current say last opened eeschema gui window.
does such a thing exists?
Short answer: no. That would mean a scripting framework API, and that will come later, maybe in v.10 or 11 for the schematic editor.
huh ok how long do you think that will take to come out at the nightly git build version? just to know if I should start branching or join the collective development.
Something like that would be in the nightlies probably around feature freeze; December usually. The question is which year. Maybe 2026 or 2027 or 2028. Depends on if, and when, someone takes on the task.
Maybe @eelik or @craftyjon will chime in.
That’s why I’m aksing to know wether to go in on that or what
I’m not a KiCad developer, and I don’t even follow the development efforts as intensively as I once did. But I know the developers don’t make promises for the future, and jmk’s guess is as good as mine or even craftyjon’s (who is the one who seems to have the main responsibility for the new API).
@Mike_Lemon, by all means get familiar with the current API efforts (KiCad / KiCad Source Code / KiCad API Python Bindings · GitLab) and then contact the developers via the development mailing list.