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Dick Hollenbeck a écrit :
> > about adding a flag bit or bool to class TRACK which would indicate 
> that
> > the track is to be drawn in the background color rather than in the
> > layer's color.
> >
>
> To fully support the erasure in a multi layer display, don't we also
> have to:
>
> 1) draw the tracks in the order of occurrence within the gerber file?
> Our track->Insert( ) logic may be inserting these tracks backwards. This
> is not hard to fix.
Yes, this is the result of the negative layer support, that is a dynamic 
attribute.
Currently, drawings are made first for flashes and lines, and after for 
polygons (from D01 and D02 commands usually used for copper areas).
This must be changed, and all items must be drawn according to the 
gerber file order, because this is incompatible with a dynamic attribute.
Of course it is not hard to change.

> 2) buffer each whole layer in its own separate bitmap while drawing, and
> then OR the bit map into the display. Otherwise the erasure will erase
> stuff from other layers.
This is the main work.
But I do not know an other way to draw black shapes and see ORed planes 
on screen.
Using a memoryDC to draw a gerber file, and a copy (blit) in ORed mode 
to the Current DC seems a reasonnable way to do this.
> More food for thought.
>
> Dick
By the way, i am starting (in pcbnew) the work to consider copper zones 
(using filled areas by a polygon approach) in connections calculations.
Using filled areas by a polygon approach seems work rather well.

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