Re: gEDA-user: Layer button backgrounds - summary

[Andrew Poelstra <asp11@xxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 09:52:19AM +1000, Stephen Ecob wrote:
> A few hours in the future, Andrew Poelstra <asp11@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Nope, uploaded it wrong :-}. The URL works now.
> 
> Looks good, a definite improvement on what we have now!
> 
> This may be out of scope for the current work, but I have some related
> items on my PCB wish list:
> 
> * Hide all layers button
> 
> * Show all layers button
>

These would be easy enough to add to the widget. Just tack an
`All Layers' entry below the other non-selectable entries.

Whether there would be demand for this, I don't know. Would it
affect the pins, pads and via layers? Would it affect the solder
mask layer? Why would you want to hide everything?

I don't expect there would be enough of a consensus on these
questions.
 
> * Layer visibility memory - this would have a Store button and a
> Recall button.  "Store" just stores the current visibility state,
> "Recall" changes it to the stored value.  Perhaps 2 or 3 memories like
> this would be really useful when working with multi layer boards.
> 

Hmm. I say, out of scope. ;)

> * Store layer colours and visibility data in the .pcb file.  I often
> work with a flow where I make changes to a .pcb in a text editor and
> then import them into PCB with the "revert" function.  It's a real
> nuisance to lose my layer visibility state every time I revert.
> 

I agree, but also out of scope. I might tackle this after the GUI
work, though. We have the ability to store layer-specific attributes,
which is exactly where things like color and visibility should
go.

-- 
Andrew Poelstra
Email: asp11 at sfu.ca OR apoelstra at wpsoftware.net
Web:   http://www.wpsoftware.net/andrew/



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