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Re: [PATCH] Allow selecting footprints that are only silkscreen using silk layers
Yep! I completely blanked on that one last night. I just pushed the
patch. Thank you for the patch and the reminder.
Cheers,
Wayne
On 01/07/2018 10:30 AM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> Hi Wayne,
>
> I think you forgot to push the patch. I can not see it on master.
>
> 2018-01-06 23:29 GMT+01:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto: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>
> > <mailto: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>
> <mailto: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>
> > <https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1741350
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1741350>>
> > > > > >
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