On 02/19/2012 12:26 PM, Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo wrote: > Hi dick, > > Sorry, somebody (on the list) already told me that this mode existed, and > was implemented. (High contrast mode). > > I only made the patch to make it accessible from a hotkey.
Pictures came through nice, but I don't understand what happens when you drop in a via and change layers? Does your design state what this behavior should be? Does the new layer become vivid and the other layers become dim automatically? > I would benefit from a description of what you want the user experience > to be like. > Comments in my last email were assuming you had something like your 1) in > mind: > > 1) Single layer view while routing: (some hot key) that would enable a > special > view mode > where the current routing layer is show in its own color, but all other > layers go gray. > I've used > this in other tools and it's very helpful, and I suppose it's not hard to > implement (if > not already done). > > (Except I missed the part about going gray. Gray is not invisible, which > is what I was > thinking. No preference for me.) > > So perhaps we should focus on the UI experience for a few emails, agree > on what would be > nice, inclusive of how the layer widget reacts to the various modes. > Then talk > about how > to code it after we something concrete described. > > Thanks, > > Dick > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
