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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hmm, I am not sure this is desireable.

There is also the cut out option associated with a zone object to do a
similar thing. (Not implemented in GAL context menu yet)

2017-04-22 7:46 GMT+02:00 Joseph Chen <joseph.chen59@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Attached is a trivial patch that puts a check mark on  the check-box of "No
> copper pour" when a new "Keepout Area Properties" dialog window is popped
> up.
>
> The problem:
>
> With pcbnew, when a new keepout zone was created, the dialog window of
> "Keepout Area Properties" popped up.  This dialog window would leave with an
> unchecked box of "No copper pour".  A busy or a novice user would have
> missed the opportunity to manually put an extra check-mark on one of some
> busy options.  As a result, the keepout zone would never be able to work to
> keep the copper-pour out of the designated area, causing the user to
> false-fully think pcbnew having a bug.
>
> As an user, this new change would have saved me from a week-long's grief
> when I missed the check-box during creating a keeoput zone in my PCB layout.
> The miss even caused me to file a bug report, which only was invalidated by
> gurus after some efforts.
>
> This new patch has fixed the problem described above, has passes my unit
> test running Ubuntu16.04.
>
> Thus I am submitting this patch.
>
>
> --JC
>
>
>
>
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