I am using a freeby PCB (Printed Circuit Board) editor PCB123. TO add new parts to the parts libraries it is required that the user create a text file with the extension .LIB This is not a wise choice on the part of PCB123's creators. My TextPad already has the .LIB included in the Binary document class. Is there a good way of handling this conflict? I have examined the provided sample PCB123 .LIB files using notepad and they appear to be pure text files and the help files in PCB123 declare that the files are indeed text files.
Any enlightenment will be appreciated.
Vic
Victor Fraenckel
victorf AT windreader DOT com
KC2GUI
You could just delete *.LIB from the Binary document class. If you don't want to do that, then you could create a new document class called PCB and add *.LIB to the list of files in class. TextPad checks through the Document classes in reverse order, so this will override the Binary document class and open *.lib files as ordinary text files.
This is not a wise choice on the part of PCB123's creators. My TextPad already has the .LIB included in the Binary document class. Is there a good way of handling this conflict? I have examined the provided sample PCB123 .LIB files using notepad and they appear to be pure text files and the help files in PCB123 declare that the files are indeed text files.