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Re: [FEATURE] Add keepout areas in footprints

 

Le 19/10/2017 à 12:55, Maciej Sumiński a écrit :
> On 10/19/2017 11:31 AM, jp charras wrote:
>> Le 18/10/2017 à 16:57, Oliver Walters a écrit :
>>> JP,
>>>
>>> Fantastic, you have worked your magic! That works much better in pcbnew now, the undo/redo is
>>> working well.
>>>
>>> However, I still see that undo/redo for zone editing is broken in modedit.
>>>
>>> Oliver
>>>
>>
>> Yes, because when an item belonging a footprint is modified, the footprint itself must be stored in
>> undo/redo stack.
>>
>> In other words:
>> commit.Modify( zone );
>> works only for a zone belonging the board.
>>
>> for a zone belonging a footprint,
>> commit.Modify( footprint);
>> must be used.
>>
>> So, verify the zones added to a footprint has this footprint as parent,
>> and save the parent if a zone has a parent MODULE.
> 
> I have not checked it yet, but I suppose it should be possible to modify
> the BOARD_COMMIT class to automagically create a copy of a whole
> footprint when used in the footprint editor. This would allow us to
> write more generic code and remove the confusion.
> 
> Regards,
> Orson

Yes, this is a better way to fix this issue, and it should simplify the current code.


-- 
Jean-Pierre CHARRAS


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