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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Andrzej,

You have not replied to my last message about your original patch that
you sent to the developers mailing list[1].  I need that one so I can
apply and test the rest of your layer visibility patches.  If you want
these to make it into rc1, please send me this patch as an attachment
soon.  I am planning to branch rc1 by Friday at the latest.

Cheers,

Wayne


[1]: https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg34009.html

On 2/19/2018 10:05 AM, Andrzej Wolski wrote:
> Patch (in attachment) for "Tracks" turned out to be very simple.
> If it gets accepted, I could make more of these.
> 
> Andrzej
> 
> 
> On 02/19/2018 02:12 PM, Andrzej Wolski wrote:
>> It would be also nice to have separate controls for:
>> 1. Tracks
>> 2. Drawing primitives (graphic lines, arcs, and circles)
>> 3. Zones
>> 4. Polygons
>> 5. Text (now there is control only for footprint text)
>> 6. Dimensions
>> 7. Plated holes
>>
>> That would make Render tab (almost) complete.
>>
>> Andrzej
>>
>> W dniu 2018-02-18 o 21:00, Jon Evans pisze:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Right now the behavior of the "Layer" and "Render" tabs of the layers
>>> widget are confusing to users, resulting in complaints on the forum
>>> and some bug reports:
>>>
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1748181
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1743890
>>>
>>> I could take a crack at fixing this (before or after 5.0 depending on
>>> what the complexity ends up being) but before I write any code I
>>> wanted to propose how I think it should work.
>>>
>>> I think the visibility of any object should be the AND of layer
>>> visibility and render visibility.
>>>
>>> To get there:
>>>
>>> 1) In the Render tab, get rid of the distinction between front/back.
>>> For example "Pads Back" and "Pads Front" becomes just "Pads"
>>>
>>> 2) Change the visibility code so that an object is visible if (a) the
>>> associated Render setting is turned on for the type of object, and
>>> (b) at least one of the layers the object is on is enabled in the
>>> Layers tab.
>>>
>>> 3) (optionally) Rename "Render" to something more friendly like
>>> "Items" or "Item Types" to make it more clear to the user that this
>>> is where they can turn off the display of various types of items as
>>> opposed to various layerse
>>>
>>> If this plan is OK, I will start working out the details of how to
>>> get there.  Right now the Render tab is directly controlling the
>>> visibility of certain "GAL Layers" but unfortunately the set of
>>> objects that appears on one GAL layer is not always equal to the set
>>> of objects that the user would expect to turn on and off, as seen by
>>> the bug reports.  So, there will have to be some additional logic
>>> created to manage these settings beyond just turning on and off
>>> layers in the GAL.
>>>
>>> -Jon
>>>
>>>
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