Re: gEDA-user: gattrib visibility doesn't work

[Karel Kulhavy <clock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 06:01:00PM -0500, Stuart Brorson wrote:
> > 
> > I selected the footprint column (by clicking the footprint label which
> > made the whole column black) and then selected "set selected invisible",
> > saved the schematic, quit gattrib and run gschem on the schematic.
> > The footprint attributes were still visible.
> 
> Hmmm. . . .    That's not good!   FWIW, I have never had a problem
> with this feature.  That is, it works for me.  I will take a look at

Looks like it was my problem now - it works on the second try and the
first time I hid footprint attributes and mistook package attributes for
footprint attributes (because they are mostly identical). Sorry.

CL<
> this feature using the latest gattrib; perhaps something in libgeda
> has gone south. . . .
> 
> One little feature I still need to implement for this feature:  I want
> to show the user the state of the attribute visibility by changing the
> font of the attribute's text.  But this involves first understanding
> how Pango fonts work.  Not for the faint of heart!
> 
> Stuart