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Dick,
Your last work is *very* good.
The look is nice.
Thanks.

About the comment (in pcbframe.cpp)
" /* some layers are not visible nor editable, don't show them for 
now: */ "

In fact they are useful here because we must be able to change the 
color and visibility because they can be visible.
Silkscreen and adhesive layers are visible (adhesive layer is rarely used)
Solder mask and solder paste (used for pads) are now visible in *Hight 
Color* mode (when they are selected as active layers)
Since some time they are now editable because Pcbnew handle parameters 
(global and local) to calculate pads shapes on these layers
So masks can be same, bigger or smaller than pads (they are parameters 
at global level, footprint level and pad level.

I planned to remove the old color dialog from preferences because the 
new layer manager is better and faster to used,
so having all enabled technical layers in the new layer manager is 
important.

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Jean-Pierre CHARRAS

Maître de conférences
Directeur d'études 2ieme année.
Génie Electrique et Informatique Industrielle 2
Institut Universitaire de Technologie 1 de Grenoble
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