JP, Given the feature freeze is now in place, I do not think this will make it for 5.0.0 release.
I do not have time to spend on this currently, as I am focusing on library issues. Cheers, On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 11:58 PM, jp charras <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 05/11/2017 à 12:04, Oliver Walters a écrit : > > I think that is the desired behaviour, though? Once in the board, the > can edit the layers > > individually anyway. > > I missed something, I did not notice it was possible the layers > individually from the board editor. > (However, when trying that, I had a Pcbnew crash, but I am not able to > reproduce it.) > > An other UI issue I missed is the fact (after your patch is applied) when > you try to select a item > inside a footprint (pad, field) in the board editor, a disambiguated menu > is displayed showing twice > the same item, although only one exists. > It also happens in fpeditor when trying to select a keepout. > > > > > On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 9:57 PM, jp charras <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > Le 05/11/2017 à 11:48, Oliver Walters a écrit : > > > How best to store the layer information then? The way I was doing > it previously was: > > > > > > - F.Cu > > > - *.Inner.Cu > > > - B.Cu > > > > > > Is this sufficient? > > > > Yes, this is sufficient, when a keepout is inside a footprint. > > > > The issue was the fact *.Inner.Cu information was lost with a 2 > layers board, when saving this > > board, or exporting to the fp editor. > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 9:41 PM, jp charras <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote: > > > > > > Le 05/11/2017 à 11:12, Oliver Walters a écrit : > > > > JP, > > > > > > > > Did you have any other things you want me to address here? > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > Oliver > > > > > > > > > > Yes: I did not make a lot of tests, but I found some issues > (tested on W7 32 bits): > > > > > > First, Pcbnew crashed after editing (after adding a keepout) a > footprint on a board in > > this case: > > > - select and edit a footprint (Ctrl+E) in fp editor: just add > a keepout, and save it on > > the board. > > > - then reselect and edit this footprint a second time in fp > editor: Pcbnew crashes. > > > > > > Other issues in fp editor: > > > - modifying a keepout cannot be undone. > > > - The keepout layers are no selectable: I am thinking the > options: Top layer, bottom layer and > > > internal layers (existing in the first version) is really > better. > > > Just this is the way these layers are managed in board editor > and stored in file that was > > not good > > > (especially when a board has only 2 layers: the internal > layers setting was lost). > > > > > > As a side effect: the look of the keepout layer dialog is not > very good after resized: > > > - Create a keepout on a board: the dialog shows the layers > list. > > > - After that, create a keepout in the fpeditor: the layers > list is not shown, but its area > > exists, > > > and the look of the dialog is not good. > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Jean-Pierre CHARRAS > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Jean-Pierre CHARRAS > > > > > > > -- > Jean-Pierre CHARRAS >
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