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  13 <h1 class="sectionedit1" id="searching_for_parts_and_marking_them_on_screen_in_gerbv">Searching for Parts and marking them on screen (in gerbv)</h1>
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  15 <pre class="code">Searching for Parts and marking them on screen (in gerbv)
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  17 THIS FUNCTIONALITY IS ONLY AVAILABLE WHEN COMPILING GERBV AGAINST GTK2!
  18
  19 Please direct any comments, suggestions etc. to Juergen &lt;juergenhaas@gmx.net&gt;
  20 =============================================================================
  21 ***  Support for Pick and Place files:                                   ***
  22 ***  csv-style files with/without quotes                                 ***
  23 ***  the following delimiters are supported &#039;;&#039; &#039;:&#039; &#039;|&#039; &#039;,&#039;              ***
  24 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  25
  26
  27 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  28 A pick and place file has 11 columns (the first two lines a file in gerbv/examplei
  29 are shown here) and looks like this:
  30
  31 Designator:Footprint:Mid X:Mid Y:Ref X:Ref Y:Pad X:Pad Y:Layer:Rotation:Comment
  32
  33 R29:0805_REFL:25.4mm:72.644mm:25.4mm:72.644mm:25.4mm:71.6788mm:T:90.00:1K/1%
  34 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  35
  36 Some instructions for the first time user:
  37
  38 after loading a PNP file a new dialog will come up offering various option of
  39 selecting and graphically marking electronic parts.
  40
  41 Three modes of selecting items do exist:
  42 1)enter any search phrase and hit enter
  43      (See also paragraph &quot;SCROLLING&quot; further down)
  44         -Generally under linux regexp expressions are used such as &quot;.*&quot; i.e. &#039;*&#039;
  45         -All matches will be marked in the list AND on the screen
  46         -if you press ESC or press &lt;ENTER&gt; on an empty line it will deselect all
  47          items
  48         -if you had a selection already and you would like to add single items
  49          one by one, just hold down CTRL key while you left-click on the desired
  50          fields
  51
  52 2)just simply use left click combined with Shift and/or CTRL for manual
  53   mouse driven selections
  54   Pressing right button of mouse will not only select but also draw item on
  55   selected layer
  56
  57 3)if you have pressed &lt;ENTER&gt; on an empty phrase you first of all will deselect
  58   anything which was selected  and you can then enter the so-called &quot;assembly
  59   mode&quot; by left clicking on an item and afterwards pressing space as often as
  60   desired, while the select parts dialog is active. The selection will move
  61   down the list one by one displaying the selected part in the window
  62   automatically (with the corresponding layer being active).
  63
  64  Alternatively 1:
  65  If you had more than one item selected and you did not clear the selections list
  66  by &lt;ENTER&gt; on an empty phrase, only the first item will be taken into account
  67  and all others will be deselected.
  68
  69  Alternatively 2:
  70  You can of course also select an item by clicking on it, pressing space will
  71  then proceed as described
  72
  73  This mode also features arrows Up/Down selection, where arrow Up will reverse
  74  the action of arrow Down/Spacebar. Furthermore, holding SHIFT while pressing
  75  arrow Up/Down will increase the selection in either direction
  76 -------------------------
  77 More Features:
  78
  79 4)Inversion of selection:
  80   pressing this button at any given time inverts the selection concerning the
  81   whole list and upon clicking Mark button this new selection will be drawn
  82   onto screen.
  83
  84
  85 5)Top/bottom selection
  86   General:  press mark to mark selections on screen, after choosing to select
  87                    top or bottom parts.
  88
  89     a)in existing selection will only remove non wanted items
  90           (e.g. all bottom parts if you press &quot;top  parts&quot;) from selection
  91
  92     b)if there is no selection, all top or all bottoms parts are selected
  93
  94
  95 6)Choose available layers for marking selected parts from drop-down list
  96   HINT: if pick and place file is loaded last, already occupied layers
  97         will not be in the drop-down list
  98
  99 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 100 Hint 1:
 101 right click functionality to know Part description.
 102 After you have graphically marked a number of parts (say all resistors) you can
 103 right click onto a part which is selected in the scroll-down list of available
 104 parts in the search dialog.
 105 Its designator, comment and footprint are then shown in the statusbar and in the log window.
 106 This comes in handy if there are many parts you want to look at, but e.g. you already
 107 know a fault has occurred only on one side of the board.
 108
 109 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 110 Hint 2:
 111 SCROLLING (in the dialog window)
 112  Scrolling generally only occurs, if search for comments is not activated AND
 113  also whenever enter is hit the list will bescrolled to the first hit,
 114  regardless of the search mode.
 115  The use of BackSpace is supported.
 116  If you decide to select an entry from the list of completions offered, then the
 117  scrolling will only occur once you press enter.
 118
 119 Example:
 120  imagine you are looking for an element labelled EU3:
 121  If you hit the first key (E) to enter a search phrase in the entry field, the
 122  list will be scrolled to the first element matching this key (E), also entering
 123  a subsequent key (U) will then further refine that and scroll to the first
 124  element with EU etc.
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