On 6/15/2010 1:53 PM, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

> Adding a tristate buffer works, but not a tristate inverter. Also,
> neither the clock source nor the splitter work, but I guess that's
> intensional.

Yep. Those aren't there yet.

> For the first time, I tried actually wiring together a simple circuit.
> Wiring seems to be quite buggy. Sometimes you join wires together and
> they don't actually join. Sometimes they look like they aren't joined,
> but when you connect the other end of the wire to something, suddenly it
> works. And sometimes it's difficult to figure out just what on Earth is
> going on. (Especially since you can't, say, delete the wires you've
> already made. *g*)

The problem, I think (aside from not being able to delete things...) is 
kind of two-fold... Connecting the pins while on the surface seemed very 
simple, some cases quickly become a royal PITA.... There are some 
modifier keys in wiring that will cause some of the connection stuff to 
behave differently, generally if it has an orange indicator, it should 
be connected when you release the mouse button. The other half of it is 
that it appears to have not connected because it doesn't always take the 
characteristics of what you just connected it to until the other end is 
connected to something else. This has more to do with the sim core, though.

There's also a major annoyance with-- for example-- altering the layout 
of a circuit. You pull a wire from one location, leaving 2 wires 
connected straight together, you then draw a new wire across that 
junction (which happens to be invisible...) and it joins everything at 
that intersection. One of the things I need to do is when reconciling 
the wires, ensure any wires that are joined at the same angle get 
consolidated into a single wire. After drawing wires for a few minutes I 
was able to slice and dice a single wire into a dozen pieces. Nasty.

> Still, I've spent several days now just trying to build the internal API
> to manage something like this, and I'm getting nowhere, rapidly...

That happens with lots of things ;)

-- 
~Mike

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