I’m happy to clean up the dialog if JP wants to check in what he has. Just let me know….
> On 3 May 2018, at 19:54, Eeli Kaikkonen <[email protected]> wrote: > > The feature seems to work well, clearances don't have effect on a board or in > the gerbers with paste or mask pads. > > > The dialog isn't very good as you told yourself. First, the text is > sentences, unlike titles, checkbox option, menu items etc. Therefore they > should all end with a period. (Now there are two sentences which end with a > period and three which don't.) > > Also, why not hide altogether the texts which aren't relevant for the pad > type? And actually hide or set to invisible, not just grey out? The relevant > instructions would be much easier to read and understand. > > Copper Non-copper Text > show hide "Set fields to 0..." > hide show "These parameters are used only... Pads only on..." > show hide "Positive... Negative..." > > And that would be only one step from disabling the clearance fields for > non-copper pads. > > But I'm already happy with the changes in this patch or even the previous > patch, it was the idea of applying global clearances to non-copper pads which > bugged me and was tedious to work around. Thank you very much. > > Eeli Kaikkonen > > > 2018-05-03 12:37 GMT+03:00 jp charras <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>>: > Attached a patch (against the current master version) with these changes: > > Fixes in Pad settings dialog. > And mainly for pads not on copper layers, all margins/clearances are ignored, > even margins defined > in the Pad settings dialog (it was not the case in the previous patch). > > This new behavior has my preference, because it is more intuitive. > > -- > Jean-Pierre CHARRAS > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > Post to : [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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