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

JP,

Given the feature freeze is now in place, I do not think this will make it
for 5.0.0 release.

I do not have time to spend on this currently, as I am focusing on library
issues.

Cheers,

On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 11:58 PM, jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Le 05/11/2017 à 12:04, Oliver Walters a écrit :
> > I think that is the desired behaviour, though? Once in the board, the
> can edit the layers
> > individually anyway.
>
> I missed something, I did not notice it was possible the layers
> individually from the board editor.
> (However, when trying that, I had a Pcbnew crash, but I am not able to
> reproduce it.)
>
> An other UI issue I missed is the fact (after your patch is applied) when
> you try to select a item
> inside a footprint (pad, field) in the board editor, a disambiguated menu
> is displayed showing twice
> the same item, although only one exists.
> It also happens in fpeditor when trying to select a keepout.
>
> >
> > On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 9:57 PM, jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >     Le 05/11/2017 à 11:48, Oliver Walters a écrit :
> >     > 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?
> >
> >     Yes, this is sufficient, when a keepout is inside a footprint.
> >
> >     The issue was the fact *.Inner.Cu information was lost with a 2
> layers board, when saving this
> >     board, or exporting to the fp editor.
> >
> >
> >     >
> >     > On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 9:41 PM, jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx
> >     <mailto:jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx> <mailto:jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto: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
> >     >
> >     >
> >
> >
> >     --
> >     Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
>