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[Oliver Walters <oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx>]

How best to store the layer information then? The way I was doing it
previously was:

-  F.Cu
- *.Inner.Cu
- B.Cu

Is this sufficient?

On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 9:41 PM, jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Le 05/11/2017 à 11:12, Oliver Walters a écrit :
> > JP,
> >
> > Did you have any other things you want me to address here?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Oliver
> >
>
> Yes: I did not make a lot of tests, but I found some issues (tested on W7
> 32 bits):
>
> First, Pcbnew crashed after editing (after adding a keepout) a footprint
> on a board in this case:
> - select and edit a footprint (Ctrl+E) in fp editor: just add a keepout,
> and save it on the board.
> - then reselect and edit this footprint a second time in fp editor: Pcbnew
> crashes.
>
> Other issues in fp editor:
> - modifying a keepout cannot be undone.
> - The keepout layers are no selectable: I am thinking the options: Top
> layer, bottom layer and
> internal layers (existing in the first version) is really better.
> Just this is the way these layers are managed in board editor and stored
> in file that was not good
> (especially when a board has only 2 layers: the internal layers setting
> was lost).
>
> As a side effect: the look of the keepout layer dialog is not very good
> after resized:
> - Create a keepout on a board: the dialog shows the layers list.
> - After that, create a keepout in the fpeditor: the layers list is not
> shown, but its area exists,
> and the look of the dialog is not good.
>
>
> --
> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
>