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[Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Wayne,

You’ll have to add it, but there are enough other drawing modes (selected, highlighted, etc.) that the code should be factored such that adding it is fairly easy.  See SCH_PAINTER::getRenderColor().

Cheers,
Jeff.

> On 18 Oct 2019, at 18:05, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know if there is a way to draw a symbol grayed out to appear
> as though it's disabled (not editable) or am I going to have to write
> it?  I couldn't find any obvious way to do this but maybe I'm over
> looking something.  The reason I ask is the new inheritance model will
> require some major changes to the current library editor design.  I
> would like to show the flattened symbol (currently the old LIB_ALIAS
> object along with the LIB_PART that it inherits) but with the editing
> tools disabled so that you can only edit the child symbol properties
> rather than the current behavior of always showing the LIB_PART symbol
> even when one of it's aliases are selected.  The library editor is the
> last of the changes before I start working on the new symbol library
> file format.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Wayne
> 
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