[Developer Feedback] Poll: layer manager

[dbrown2k]

I’ve seen a couple of posts regarding python scripting, one with how to setup dialogue box type interfaces. Programming is not my forte, but this looks to be one way of implementing;

Customize menu or add a button in SCH or PCB

I’ve found out that it’s possible to add menu items to the interface using the python scripting. It requires wxpython support though, I don’t know if stable builds have it enabled. The catch is; once you have a script to create the menu item, you have to run it from the scripting console the first time. AFAIK there is no other way to trigger a python script in pcbnew. It would be great if there was a python script file that is run at startup automatically. Here is an example I’ve been working …