Hi Nick,
I try to detail it again and hope I can make clear what I mean:
- currently you can in 4.0.7 Legacy canvas
* toggle the Value and Reference option in Visibility:Elements.
When you do that:
* Value/Reference are displayed or hidden according to the status of
the Element control.
The state of the _Layer option_ F.SilkS/B.SilkS and F.Fab/B.Fab have
_no influence_ on the visibility of Value/Reference.
- when you switch to OpenGL or Cairo Value/Reference _disappear_ on the
PCB when F.SilkS/B.SilkS and F.Fab/B.Fab are _unset_ in the Layer
options regardless that Value/Reference option are set in Elements.
Value/Reference are in OpenGL/Cairo only _displayed_ when *.SilkS/*.Fab
are _set_ *and* the Element control for Value/Reference are set.
This is independent from the actual PCB project. (I tried it on three
different projects)
In the current Nightly all canvases act the same as OpenGL/Cairo in
4.0.7. (Legacy in 4.0.7 behaves differently as Legacy in Nightly.)
I hope this made it clearer.
Andr�
Am 2018-01-04 um 14:18 schrieb Nick �stergaard:
2018-01-04 <tel:20%2018%2001%2004> 9:55 GMT+01:00 Andr� S.
<list.dev.kicad@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:list.dev.kicad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>>:
Hi everyone,
I discovered some not consistent behaviour in the current stable
release:
On the Legacy canvas you can display Value of the footprint by
enabling Value option under Elements in the Visibility menu.
This is not true for OpenGL and Cairo canvas.
In the Nightly from 2018-01-02 <tel:2018-01-02> Legacy shows the
same behaviour as OpenGL and Cairo. There Value is only visible
when F.Fab is visible.
This means 5.0 will show consistent behaviour over all canvases. Fine.
The same is true with References and F.SilkS layer.
What is missing with this solution is the possibility to be able
to only display Value/Reference of a footprint as the current
stable release Legacy canvas allows. (I really like this feature
because it removes a lot of visual noise on the PCB during layout
design).
I don't understand you. There is still the toggle for references and
values in the render (elemente) tab. I don't understand why you
exemplify it with 4.0.7 when you say there is no regression. Please
illustrate what you would like to have and attach an example kicad_pcb
file, it is easier to comment on that.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1741015
I do think the behaviour of Legacy was always there, therefore my
confusion with the Values and References not visible when
switching canvases.
Is there any chance that in future there will be an option (again)
to toggle Value and Reference visibility independently from F.Fab
and F.Silks?
Best Regards,
Andr�
PS: xkcd reference: https://xkcd.com/1172/ ;)
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