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Re: Layer Properties Dialog and limited number of colours

 

Brian Sidebotham a écrit :


Hi Guys,

Last night I thought I might as well start looking at implimenting the
layer properties dialog (or toolbox) that was discussed a while back.

However, whilst I was reading up on the code, I noticed that KiCAD is
limited to around 20 colours or so that are predefined in an array. Is
there any reason for this in particular?

Yes (for pcbnew).
Pcbnew and Gerbview (but not eeschema) uses the OR mode to draw the layers on screen (the transparency mode did not exists when i wrote the code) I carefully chose the binary values of these colors in order to have good results in OR mode in screen, to see layers like in tranparency mode.

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