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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff,

On 10/16/2018 12:06 PM, Jeff Young wrote:
> The “Footprint graphic items” bug was a dyn_cast when a dynamic_cast was needed (dyn_cast doesn’t handle inheritance).

Do you want me to file a bug report on this or are you going to fix it
right away?

> 
> I can’t reproduce the “Other footprint fields” on fab layers problem.

The text size was my fault.  I had the wrong layer sizes set.

> 
> Cheers,
> Jeff.
> 
> As an aside, would you expect a footprint field with the text %R to get updated with “Other footprint fields” or “Footprint references”?

To me it makes sense to update %R with the reference field and %V with
the value field although I don't have a strong preference.

> 
> 
>> On 16 Oct 2018, at 16:46, Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Wayne,
>>
>> Set to Layer Defaults should set the fields on the fab layer to the values in the “Other Layers” row.
>>
>> Similarly, Set to Layer Defaults of footprint graphic items should set the silkscreen layer graphic items to the values in the “Silk Layers” row.
>>
>> I’ll see if it’s working in a minute, but I’m in the middle of a build right now.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jeff.
>>
>>
>>> On 16 Oct 2018, at 16:25, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm not sure I using this correctly so before I file a bug report
>>> against it, I have some questions about the edit text and graphic
>>> properties behavior in pcbnew.
>>>
>>> When changing footprint text sizes using the set to layer default values
>>> option, the fields on silkscreen layers are updated as expected but the
>>> fields on the fab layers do not seem to be affected.
>>>
>>> When changing footprint graphic items using the set to layer default
>>> values option, none of the silkscreen layer graphic item widths of
>>> footprints seem to be updated as expected.
>>>
>>> Is this on purpose or is it an oversight or am I not understanding how
>>> this is supposed to work?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Wayne
>>>
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