Re: gEDA-user: PCB bug?

[Dave N6NZ <n6nz@xxxxxxxx>]

OK -- great.  I appreciate the explanation.

-dave


Ben Jackson wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 09:46:09AM -0800, Dave N6NZ wrote:
>> Can you please describe this bug more completely?  I want to make sure I 
>> didn't send off some bad gerbers. Does it mean that an SMD pad will not 
>> clear a polygon in the exported gerber?
> 
>>From Dec 2, 2007 to Jan 3, 2008 the CVS version of PCB would not clear
> pads from surface polygons on initial load.  If you reloaded (by
> immediately reverting) or moved a part or any of a number of other
> actions, the polygon problem would be corrected.  There is no export
> issue per se:  What you see on the screen is what got exported.  If
> you experienced the bug it was visible on-screen.
> 
> This was caused by a change I made on Dec 2 to fix other bugs (such as
> one in the SF tracker about being unable to convert some collections
> of objects to an element, and the inability to move selected items
> within the board area).  The change made the code consistent with
> 300 other locations but broke loading, which relied on the inconsistency.
> On Jan 3 I modified the board loading code to work around the problem.
> 


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