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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

I misunderstood the purpose of this patch as well.  I tested it and it
works as advertised so I merged it.  Thank you for your contribution.

Cheers,

Wayne

On 01/06/2018 03:30 PM, Jon Evans wrote:
> The Launchpad bug description has a pretty good example -- if you place
> the KiCad logo (from the library) on a silk layer, you can't interact
> with it when using high-contrast on the silk layer without this patch.
> But if you place it next to another component that has non-silk data
> (i.e. pads, etc) you can't select or move that component from the silk
> layer.
> 
> On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 3:28 PM, Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     Wait, I may have misunderstood what this patch does. Disregard - I'd
>     test it myself but my source tree is a bit of a mess at the moment...
> 
>     On Sat, Jan 06, 2018 at 08:17:11PM +0000, Jon Evans wrote:
>     > The intent was to only allow selection of "components" which only
>     exist on
>     > the silkscreen layer.  It makes sense to me to be able to move
>     these around
>     > when high-contrasting on the silkscreen layer, since they are
>     basically
>     > just "free silkscreen" objects.
>     >
>     > On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 3:15 PM, Chris Pavlina
>     <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>>
>     > wrote:
>     >
>     > > Yeah, this goes against the whole reason I use high contrast mode.
>     > >
>     > > On Sat, Jan 06, 2018 at 08:11:00PM +0000, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>     > > > Is this behavior desirable?  I know some users who use the
>     high contrast
>     > > > mode to prevent the disambiguation menus when editing high density
>     > > > boards.  Wouldn't this patch make that issue worse since now
>     you are
>     > > > including the silkscreen layers which will increase the
>     probability of a
>     > > > disambiguation?  I would like to get more feedback on this
>     before I
>     > > > merge this patch.
>     > > >
>     > > > On 01/04/2018 05:40 PM, Jon Evans wrote:
>     > > > > See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1741350
>     <https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1741350>
>     > > > >
>     > > > >
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