On 7/5/19 11:50 AM, Seth Hillbrand wrote: > On 2019-07-05 07:46, Jeff Young wrote: >> 1) If I move a footprint which is over a zone, the zone fill becomes >> stale. >> >> 2) If I move a zone which has footprints over it, the zone is re-filled. >> >> 3) If I edit the points of a zone and then de-select it, the zone is >> re-filled. >> >> Item (2) turns out to be a side effect of the PointEditor getting >> activated when the zone is selected for the move, and then refilling >> the zone when it is unselected. >> >> Do we want to keep that, or should I make it consistent with (1)? >> >> (Making it consistent will fix Wayne's crash, but I think I can find >> other ways of fixing it if we want to keep the behaviour.) > > Wow, is that what that crash was? Nice sleuthing there! Point editor > is going to be the death of us. :) > > Since we refill zones after they become stale internally, I think we > should be consistent and refill in case (1) also. But this has some > nasty side effects when working in boards with extended fill times. For > 5.1, I'd vote for leaving behavior as-is and adding a preference setting > for auto-refill stale zones in v6. Then that can control all refills > including (1) as well as dragging a track over a filled zone area. > > -Seth >
I concur. We should definitely make zone auto filling optional. For complex boards the refill cost can be painful. Wayne _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
