JP, If you are OK with Jeff's proposal, please push your patch so we can get some more testing on this before the v5 release.
Thanks, Wayne On 5/3/2018 4:39 PM, Jeff Young wrote: > I’m happy to clean up the dialog if JP wants to check in what he has. > Just let me know…. > > >> On 3 May 2018, at 19:54, Eeli Kaikkonen <eeli.kaikko...@gmail.com >> <mailto:eeli.kaikko...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> The feature seems to work well, clearances don't have effect on a >> board or in the gerbers with paste or mask pads. >> >> >> The dialog isn't very good as you told yourself. First, the text is >> sentences, unlike titles, checkbox option, menu items etc. Therefore >> they should all end with a period. (Now there are two sentences which >> end with a period and three which don't.) >> >> Also, why not hide altogether the texts which aren't relevant for the >> pad type? And actually hide or set to invisible, not just grey out? >> The relevant instructions would be much easier to read and understand. >> >> Copper Non-copper Text >> show hide "Set fields to 0..." >> hide show "These parameters are used only... Pads only >> on..." >> show hide "Positive... Negative..." >> >> And that would be only one step from disabling the clearance fields >> for non-copper pads. >> >> But I'm already happy with the changes in this patch or even the >> previous patch, it was the idea of applying global clearances to >> non-copper pads which bugged me and was tedious to work around. Thank >> you very much. >> >> Eeli Kaikkonen >> >> >> 2018-05-03 12:37 GMT+03:00 jp charras <jp.char...@wanadoo.fr >> <mailto:jp.char...@wanadoo.fr>>: >> >> Attached a patch (against the current master version) with these >> changes: >> >> Fixes in Pad settings dialog. >> And mainly for pads not on copper layers, all margins/clearances >> are ignored, even margins defined >> in the Pad settings dialog (it was not the case in the previous >> patch). >> >> This new behavior has my preference, because it is more intuitive. >> >> -- >> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> >> Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net >> <mailto:kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net> >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net >> <mailto:kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net> >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
