Re: gEDA-user: soldermaskand vias in PCB

[don_reid@xxxxxxxxxxx (don)]

On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 11:22:21PM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> > Well, you can make some opening by editing the ASCII file. I did
> > that to some of the thermal vias and power/ground vias.
> 
> So it does.  There doesn't seem to be ANY way of changing the mask
> from within pcb, though.  The Xaw, Gtk, and HID versions all have a
> ChangeObjectMaskSize() function, but none have *any* calls to it.
> 
> However, having created a suitably edited PCB file, and seeing the via
> with the mask, I note that the via's mask continues to be shown when
> the via itself is not, in both the Gtk and HID versions.

This is why I want to see an object edit dialog in "the" GUI.
A feature like that would allow the user to alter any property
of an object to exactly what they wanted.

-- 
Don Reid