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[Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

@JP, I thought I fixed the border/background problem.  (It’s also possible I just stopped working on it because I wasn’t getting anywhere.)

Do you have a case that exhibits it that I can look in to?

> On 20 Oct 2018, at 12:21, jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Le 19/10/2018 à 22:12, Wayne Stambaugh a écrit :
>> I don't know if anyone is aware but there is an issue with rendering
>> symbols with arcs in the new Eeschema gal code.  Apparently, the legacy
>> canvas could be tricked into drawing a minimal line width using a
>> negative width value.  This cause the the gal canvas to draw a rather
>> interesting blob (you can check this by opening any nor gate symbol in
>> the 4xxx library.  The solution proposed by the librarians is to us the
>> minimal 1mil line width but the rendered results are less than ideal in
>> the legacy canvas[1].  Anyone have any ideas about how to resolve this?
>> I would prefer that the gal canvases render symbols the same as the
>> legacy canvas without have two sets of symbol libraries.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Wayne
>> 
>> [1]: https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-symbols/pull/1059#issuecomment-431447533
> 
> This is an issue with polylines.
> 
> In 5.0 you cannot even select a item having a negative line width.
> 
> This is an issue with very large negative values ( a value = -1 does not
> create this issue) for line width.
> 
> I just committed a workaround for this issue.
> 
> This is a workaround because you cannot (currently) edit items with a
> negative line thickness.
> 
> A full fix is a bit more complex, because items with background fill
> must be drawn on the background at least the filled area), and all other
> items on top, after the background fill, in any case (for instance when
> moving/placing an object in libedit).
> 
> I know Jeff has already worked on this problem, so because he has a
> better knowledge of priority drawings, I'll leave it fix this issue (if
> he agree, of course)
> 
> -- 
> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
> 
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