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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 02/19/2012 12:26 PM, Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo wrote:
> Hi dick,
>
>    Sorry, somebody (on the list) already told me that this mode existed, and
> was implemented. (High contrast mode).
>
>     I only made the patch to make it accessible from a hotkey.


Pictures came through nice, but I don't understand what happens when you drop in a via and
change layers?

Does your design state what this behavior should be?

Does the new layer become vivid and the other layers become dim automatically?


>     I would benefit from a description of what you want the user experience to be like.
>     Comments in my last email were assuming you had something like your 1) in mind:
>
>       1) Single layer view while routing: (some hot key) that would enable a special
>     view mode
>     where the current routing layer is show in its own color, but all other layers go gray.
>      I've used
>     this in other tools and it's very helpful, and I suppose it's not hard to implement (if
>     not already done).
>
>     (Except I missed the part about going gray.  Gray is not invisible, which is what I was
>     thinking.  No preference for me.)
>
>     So perhaps we should focus on the UI experience for a few emails, agree on what would be
>     nice, inclusive of how the layer widget reacts to the various modes.  Then talk
>     about how
>     to code it after we something concrete described.
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     Dick
>