modify pad makes preview disappear

[Nicholas Savenlid]

footprint editor , pad properties

preview of pad disappears if size and/or shape is changed.

[Maciej Suminski (orsonmmz)]

Hi Nicholas,

I cannot reproduce the problem here. You need to give more information (see [1]). Does it happen with every footprint/pad? If not, please provide the faulty footprint. Does it happen in the OpenGL view?

1. http://kicad-pcb.org/help/report-a-bug/#_content_of_a_bug_report

[Nicholas Savenlid (nicholas-z)]

Version 2016-02-17 BZR 6562 Git 78d0cfc
wxWidgets 3.0.2 unicode and boost 1.57.0
platform windiws 7 build 7601 service pack1 64bit edition

I also want to make an ehanchmet that you should be able to copy that onformation from the help-pop-up, now you need to manually copy it, error prone

regarding my grapical interface i think it is kairo

how can I check ?
he could have told me in same pop-up window

i am working on maxim-ic footprints as we speak.

i should try make some prints screens

thanks

[Nicholas Savenlid (nicholas-z)]

screens-shots combined in png showing the problem(s)

[Nicholas Savenlid (nicholas-z)]

enhancements suggestion about canvas indication

[Nicholas Savenlid (nicholas-z)]

forgot to metion, any footprint wiil do, not ´bound to any specific footprint

[Wayne Stambaugh (stambaughw)]

There is a bug in the GAL version when editing the pad dimensions. I appears to me that not every key stroke updates the pad view when changing the pad dimensions. However, if I move the cursor over the preview window, the preview window gets refreshed so there is definitely a difference in the preview window behavior between the GAL and legacy canvases. This works as expected in the legacy view. When either of the dimensions (X or Y) edit controls is empty, 0, or cannot be converted to a number, the preview is correct as all of these conditions are 0 which makes the preview window blank. I don't know how else you would show a 0 width or height pad.

[Jeff Young (jeyjey)]

The suggested enhancements (canvas-indication and copy-version-info) have both been implemented.

Changes have also been made to pad rendering. @Wayne, can you still reproduce the not-always-drawn issue?

[Wayne Stambaugh (stambaughw)]

Changing the size by keystroke seems too work fine now but when the value is 0 or not a number, the pad is still shown at it's last size which is different than the legacy canvas.

[Jeff Young (jeyjey)]

I'm not sure I'd call that corner-case a bug. Or even if I did, I'm not sure I'd bother fixing it. ;)