Sounds great! Joe T
-----Original Message----- >From: DJ Delorie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Jan 20, 2006 9:05 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: gEDA-user: pcb: active layer helpers > > >> Be careful not to mix the need for viewing the other side with the >> need to modify the other side. What the user wants to observe is >> often different than what the user wants to control. > >If we decide to keep this, I'd make it a settable option. Or, >something you can put in your local menu definition. > >> Whatever you do, you may want to keep in mind that in the future PCB >> is likely to need more colors to differentiate between items on the >> screen, > >The functionality is isolated within the lesstif HID so it can do >pretty much whatever it wants/needs. At the moment, it just uses a >color halfway between the regular color and the background color. >Even without this, the active layer is always drawn on top, and the >status bar has an indicator (colored, no less) to tell you which is >the active layer. > >Stippled might be useful though. We'll see how it holds up under real >use. > >> especially if it ever supports more than 8 layers. > >It already supports more than 8 layers. Just, not by default. I've >tested it with over 50 layers. I suspect we'll need to increase the >default, and add some layer management tools (add/delete/move), in >order to support editable masks, keep-outs, plating regions, etc.
