wishlist: SPICE probe commands in eeschema

[Seth Hillbrand]

Created from Launchpad question: https://answers.launchpad.net/kicad/+question/677262
Application: KiCad
Version: 5.1.4-e60b266~84~ubuntu18.04.1, release build
Libraries:
    wxWidgets 3.0.4
    libcurl/7.58.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1 zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.0.4 libpsl/0.19.1 (+libidn2/2.0.4) nghttp2/1.30.0 librtmp/2.3
Platform: Linux 4.15.0-58-generic x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
Build Info:
    wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 3.22
    Boost: 1.65.1
    OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
    Curl: 7.58.0
    Compiler: GCC 7.4.0 with C++ ABI 1011

Build settings:
    USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
    USE_WX_OVERLAY=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
    BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
    KICAD_SPICE=ON

It would be extremely useful to have the following 6 Probe-like commands executable directly from eeschematic
in a future version KiCAD:
search forward level (sfle), probably better renamed as “search forward y value (sfyv)”
search backward y value (sbyv)
search x value (sxv)
max (for finding the absolute maximum)
min (for finding the absolute minimum)
peak (for finding a local max)
trough (for finding a local min)

kind regards,
Hugo

[Sylwester Kocjan (skocjan)]

Related feature request is here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1850793
It could be handled at the same time.

[KiCad Janitor (kicad-janitor)]

KiCad bug tracker has moved to Gitlab. This report is now available here: https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/2321