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I love this project. I love how pleasant Python can make life. I have strong negative feelings against Python dependency/package/version management. Docker is a wonderful technology. Docker and Python belong together. This project deserves to be run on all machines regardless of how badly pip has made a mess of things :)

I am working on a container now. Will make Pull request with Dockerfile when ready

Hi,

I was wondering if there was any interest in generating more appealing circuit representations as they are shown in the asciigrid application. Please see the example:

It shows

• left: the original ASCII text (blocks and other elements made from plain ascii characters)
• right: the resulting circuit as an SVG image (dynamically rendered from the original ASCII)

Under the hood, asciigrid uses Svgbob to render the ASCII structures.

asciigrid provides a nice text editor within the web. But for display of electronics it is lacking the ability to pre-create and use dedicated circuit elements (resistors, capacitors, ... within an element library) as aacircuitpy does. So, in order to connect aacircuitpy with asciigrid, either side would have to modify its code base. The easiest would be if within aacircuitpy a modified element library would be created / provided. This modified library would have to fit to the format specifications which allow asciigrid to render the ascii elements into correct SVG.

What do you think? Would a connection to asciigrid be interesting to the developers, here?

Of course,,there are many other technical requirements which would have to be implemented in order for the connection to become smooth. This is just an idea... ;-) are there plans to improve aacircuitpy?

Hi,

I would be interested in the structure of aacircuitpy. Are there any structural diagrams, concept maps, ... which could be read in order to quicker understand the application structure?

• overview about what is done in which code module
• connections between code modules
• usage of external functionalities
• ...

of course, a real software developer would read the code modules and build something like this within his head, but maybe there are some structure sketches you could provide?

I'm eager to try this, but after installing the latest Python (3.11) and trying to run it, I get the following error. Am I doing something wrong?

C:\PortableApps\AACircuit-master>python aacircuit.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\PortableApps\AACircuit-master\aacircuit.py", line 11, in <module> from application.controller import Controller File "C:\PortableApps\AACircuit-master\application\controller.py", line 9, in <module> import xerox ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'xerox'

Thanks!

Hi @Blokkendoos,

this application is still very interesting, although there will be more modern approaches to electronics design and management. For minimalists and ASCII lovers within this domain, AACircuit and AACircuitPy could do a great job. Only, there is this great difficulty when trying to provide a working installation on Windows OS.

In order to more easily be able to understand this Python code base and possibly be able to identify parts which could be replaced by the usage of more unproblematic packages, a system overview would be great. This overview would have to show which package is used at which point within the application to do what task. So, other developers would have a chance to more easily grasp the system architecture and apply valuable changes by replacing parts.

What do you think?

I would love to help creating such an overview, if necessary, but finding my way through the code base myself (without support from the maintainer) is too time consuming.

First of all ... FUN!

It's great to see people keeping ASCII art living in applications that are also practical; κῦδος!

I'm the authorof https://github.com/nkh/P5-App-Asciio, there was a a stencil with a library of electronic components to use, https://github.com/fbagagli/asciio_contrib/blob/master/stencils/circuit, but it didn't go very far; would it be OK if I use yours?

I'm attempting to run on windows. I believe I have all the dependencies installed but when I try running
python AACircuit.py
I get the following:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\mitch\Documents\GitHub\AACircuit\AACircuit.py", line 11, in <module> from application.controller import Controller File "C:\Users\mitch\Documents\GitHub\AACircuit\application\controller.py", line 13, in <module> from locale import gettext as _ ImportError: cannot import name 'gettext' from 'locale' (C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.9_3.9.1520.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\lib\locale.py)

Hi,

I'd love to try AACircuitPy on Linux. I learned that installing and running it on Windows seems to be too difficult (at least for a "normal" person without extensive system knowledge). But on Linux, I thought, this would be easier...

This is what I've tried so far:

# prepare the virtual environment
cd ~
python3 -m venv ENV__aacircuit__py37
source ENV__aacircuit__py37/bin/activate

# install dependencies
pip install xerox      # v0.4.1 gets installed
pip install pypubsub   # v4.0.3 gets installed
pip install bresenham  # v0.2.1 gets installed

# get the sources
git clone https://github.com/Blokkendoos/AACircuit.git APP__aacircuit

# walk into project folder and try it
cd APP__aacircuit
python aacircuit.py

unfortunately, this seems to lead to a missing module "gi", so ...

# install further dependency
pip install gi   # results in installation of
                 # certifi v2022.12.7
                 # charset-normalizer v2.1.1
                 # gi v1.2
                 # idna v3.4
                 # requests v2.28.1
                 # urllib3 v1.26.13

# try to execute
python aacircuit.py

now, the newly installed gi package shows an error which stems from a Python v2 statement print url (missing parentheses). Before I try to re-work the gi source code, I'd rather like to ask a question, here ;-) .

could someone drop some lines of bash commands in order for others to be successful? I tried on a RaspberryPi, using Python v3.7 . Can anybody help me?