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[Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

No, I agree with you in that case, that sounds like a bug in my patch and
I'll check it out this weekend when I can get back to coding.

Thanks,
Jon

On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 12:28 PM, Andrzej Wolski <awolski.kicad@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Jon,
>
> I probably didn't express myself clearly. What I mean is a situation when
> *only* enabled layer if F.Paste and then you disable "Pads Front". Now
> nothing is visible on the board, but footprints are still selectable.
>
> In other words, when no single item belonging to footprint is visible,
> footprints should not be selectable.
>
> Do you still disagree with me?
>
> Andrzej
>
> W dniu 2018-03-02 o 15:42, Jon Evans pisze:
>
> Hi Andrzej,
>
> This was my intention, which is why I said I was prepared for other people
> to have other opinions :-)
>
> I think that you should still be able to select footprints even if the
> "front pads" is hidden from layers like the paste layer, *unless* you are
> in high contrast mode.
>
> -Jon
>
> On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 3:53 AM, Andrzej Wolski <awolski.kicad@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> I've tried this patch, and there is a small issue: if you have only eg
>> front paste layer enabled and front pads are hidden, footprint is still
>> selectable.
>>
>> Andrzej
>>
>>
>> W dniu 2018-02-27 o 04:11, Jon Evans pisze:
>>
>> This patch changes the selection logic for footprints to fix a reported
>> issue[1] and to make the behavior more logical to me.
>>
>> I know that correct selection behavior is something of a personal
>> preference, so I'm ready to be flamed :-)
>>
>> The new behavior:
>>
>> A footprint may be selected if:
>> 1) The corresponding "Footprints" switch is on in the Items tab, AND
>> 2) One or more of the layers that the footprint draws on is visible
>>
>> This means that if all of the layers are turned off, footprints are not
>> selectable (fixes the bug), but it also means that now footprints can be
>> selected if any draw layers are visible (for example, if you have only
>> F.Mask enabled, you can select a footprint that has solder mask and is on
>> the front layer).
>>
>> Before anyone complains, this is only if high-contrast mode is turned
>> OFF.  When it is on, you can still only select items that *only* exist on
>> that layer (to make moving silkscreen around easier, for example)
>>
>> Even though this adds some more for-loops to selection filtering, I have
>> not noticed any performance hits on some selection of large boards that I
>> tested.  More testing is welcome.
>>
>> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1751960
>>
>> -Jon
>>
>>
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