Re: gEDA-user: New icon set and UI changes

[Andrew Poelstra <asp11@xxxxxx>]

John Griessen <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 08/03/2010 09:18 AM, Andrew Poelstra wrote:
> > What do you think about setting route-styles on a per-layer basis.
> 
> That could work before we  get virtual layer groups.  One would have to create layers that "go together"
> so when a trace changes to another layer in the group that goes together, the trace width stays the same...
> 
> I think virtual layers is a concept that would speed results for beginners, since it simplifies
> a necessary part of designing multilayer boards.  If you want an interface for dirt simple cases,
> make a separate user interface.  Most of us here don't think of GUI programming as easy/fun, so
> want one GUI for everything, thus the goal is usually to keep it user configurable.
> 

Exactly. I don't want to write code for per-layer style switching if what we actually want
is virtual layers. GUI code is bad enough without being completely unnecessary.

My problem is that I'm used to thinking of layers as physical layers, and I'm confused about
the logistics of using virtual layers.

I think something like:
The main view is tabbed by each physical layer, with the other physical layers having 50%
opacity. Where the current layer switcher is, we switch between virtual layers.

But what I just described is functionally the same as per-layer style switching, and we
still have problems of how/when to group disparate layers.


Andrew


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