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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

I cannot speak about the GAL enums but I can tell you that if you muck
up the legacy layer enums, you will almost surely break loading really
old board files.  I would proceed with extreme caution here.

On 3/12/2017 12:25 PM, Jon Evans wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> Can anyone explain if there is a reason why the layer definition enums
> are done in the way they are?
> 
> Using multiple enums for the "normal" layers and the GAL extra layers is
> complicating the code, especially now that I am using the GAL layers for
> GerbView, and also working on a color theme manager that will be shared
> across applications. 
> 
> It would make more sense to me if there was a single large enum that
> contained all possible layers, with some offset somewhere to separate
> the "drawing" layers from the "GAL item" layers. This would simplify
> code that needs to refer to layer IDs across multiple applications. 
> 
> Would anyone be opposed to this? 
> 
> -Jon
> 
> 
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