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[Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Wayne,

Already fixed.

Cheers,
Jeff.


> On 16 Oct 2018, at 17:19, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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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