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[Manveru <manveru@...>]

Hello,

I've just build latest code from SVN mainly to look at Dick's work.
Below I put comments about how it works under Windows (wxWidgets
2.9.0). I loaded my board done sometime ago, and I am trying what is
working and what is not.

1. Color change option is not availabe if I have two button mouse.

2. Vias I have on my board are displayed in light gray and I am unable
to hide them by layer widget - they remain visible.

3. Adhes_Front, Adhes_Back, SoldP_Front, SoldP_Back do not reveal
nothing; I suspect due to fact that part modules do not have such
elements designed.

4. Mask_Front and Mask_Back similarly to above.

5. Under "Rendering" tab, Pads Front and Pads Back do not hide parts'
pads, and second layer elements have pads in colors of "Micro Via".

6. Text Front and Text Backs hides and shows texts as expected, but
Front Text are still white, while on widget the blue color is shown.

7. Anchors and Grid works as expected in the color shown on widget.

8. Because arrow used to mark selected layer is BIG, the whole content
do not fit in default (seems to be smallest possible) size, and layers
check boxes are cut off. I have 19" 1280x1024 monitor here.

My personal feelings are that:
* Really nice job was done, in general this may really speedup the productivity.
* Missing availability of middle click makes color fields unusable (I
think for most windows users), adding an option to the popup menu
after separator may be enough.
* The blue arrow is an excessive waste of smaller screens space, I
suggest that it would be enough to darken background of selected layer
and maybe draw white thin frame around.
* Jean-Pierre mentioned about close button, which is a must I think;
but what about rolling off similarly to graphics programs, where the
vertical bar containing only name is available and clicked it rolls on
to normal float, I do not know how hard it is to achieve (this should
be implemented in wxAui itself...).
* The yet another idea is to have a three letter abbreviations of
layer names, and show the widget as narrow as possible, and switch to
full names if it is enough space to display them (individually would
be really great).

Thank you Dick for your hard work.
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Manveru
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