[Ktechlab-devel] simulator

[Glen]

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Implement resistance, capacitance, inductance, and a few other things,
and have the component libraries hold the SVG, equations, icons, etc.

The important stuff is already implemented, no reason to reinvent the
wheel on it, imo.

- --G

P Zoltan wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:09:13 +0100, Julian Bäume <julian at svg4all.de> wrote:
> 
>> On Friday 07 November 2008 01:14:35 Glen wrote:
>>> Is there any direction / ideas for what direction the simulator should
>>> go? I have my own ideas, especially now since I've probed the code a
>>> little bit, but what's really better for the project?
>> Some time ago, it was mentioned on the list, that the actual code won't  
>> scale.
>> So it's really hard to add new components to the simulator. We need a  
>> way to
>> define components more easy.
> 
>   Actually the components are hard-coded in the program, so to change them,  
> you need to recompile ktechlab. That's a huge problem, imo.
> 
>> XML would be something to mention here. I don't
>> see the problem to do something like that with the visualisation part,  
>> but for
>> the simulator I don't see a good way to do it.
> 
>   I think the models can be also defined in XML; I've mentioned this on the  
> list earlier:
> some 'basic' components should be defined in the program and everything  
> else threated as subcircuit. So in XML we should describe two things: the  
> symbol for the new component and the equivalent subcircuit as the model.
>   As I know, spice does something similar: there are some basic parts, and  
> the more complex ciruits are threated as subcircuits.
> 
>   Things get tricky when we want to define some interactive components with  
> XML. For that we might need some expression-evaluation algorithms.
> 
> 
>> There is a wiki page for features:
>> http://ktechlab.org/wiki/index.php?title=DEVEL:Feature_Request
>>
> 
>   BTW Wiki: can the wiki made read-only for not registered readers? When I  
> look at the recent changes, I see 99% spam / spam deleted.
> 
>> I mentioned to create the simulation logic in the XML files via ECMA  
>> script,
>> since this could be interpreted by Qt. I haven't done any speed tests  
>> till
>> now.. shame on me.
>>
> 
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