[Ktechlab-devel] Connector.

[Alan Grimes]

The more I squint at Connector, the more mysterious it gets...


First, it seems to be doing lots of stuff that I thought Wire was for, 
yet the relationship between Connector and Wire is not obvious at all...

It has an obvious relationship to ICN document, -- it draws the 
interconnections... However it also seems to cover the directivity that 
only exists in the flowpart branch of the tree, and it also deals with 
wires that only belong in the EC part of the tree. =\

How does it do all that and still remain relatively (but far from 
completely!) sane...

Obviously it needs to get smarter, to draw cleaner lines for circuits, 
and there needs to be a more powerful engine that is able to sort out 
and optimize Junction Nodes (thanks refactor guy -- I gotta start 
learning people's names!!!)

What I need now is for UML guy to squint at this for me and see what he 
can discover....

On the other side of the source, I'd like to hear from QT4 guy about 
what to do with Canvas.h, and how to safely re-standardize it. It is 
also important to start putting together a roadmap for setting up the 
new components engine... (the entirety of the existing parts library, 
especially the PIC components, will have to be scrapped and rewritten in 
favor of a runtime database and that will require a whole new engine to 
process the parts...)

Going forward, one future enhancement that would be useful would be to 
implement varriable temperature, and have temperature domains, or "heat 
sinks" so it would be possible to glue a bunch of parts to a heat sink 
and, if they are temperature sensitive, have them interact with that 
heatsink... This would allow the simulation of "thermal runaway" which 
is important in power transistor circuits...



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