footprint editor does not honor selected layer for text

[Nicholas Savenlid]

When adding text in footprint editor he happily suggest silkscreen layer all tough fab is selected.

for most other items like polygons circles and arc this is not a problem.

see pic

[Novak Tamas (novak-7)]

Confirmed on Win7/x64, BZR6658
F.Fab is selected on right layer list, text still want to go to F.Silk. If you change layer fromF.Silk to F.Fab on Footprint Text Property pane, text will be normally placed to Fab...only default is always Silk instead of the actaully selected layer when entering Footprint Text Property pane.

[Jeff Young (jeyjey)]

Possibly Windows-specific? I can't reproduce this on 4.0.7 OSX:

Application: kicad
Version: 4.0.7 release build
wxWidgets: Version 3.0.2 (debug,UTF-8,compiler with C++ ABI 1002,GCC 4.2.1,STL containers,compatible with 2.8)
Platform: Mac OS X (Darwin 17.3.0 x86_64), 64 bit, Little endian, wxMac
Boost version: 1.57.0
Curl version: libcurl/7.54.0 LibreSSL/2.0.20 zlib/1.2.11 nghttp2/1.24.0
         USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=ON
         USE_WX_OVERLAY=ON
         KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
         KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
         KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
         USE_FP_LIB_TABLE=HARD_CODED_ON
         BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON

... or on a current build on OSX:

Application: kicad
Version: (2018-01-02 revision f961e5191)-master, debug build
Libraries:
    wxWidgets 3.0.3
    libcurl/7.54.0 LibreSSL/2.0.20 zlib/1.2.11 nghttp2/1.24.0
Platform: Mac OS X (Darwin 17.3.0 x86_64), 64 bit, Little endian, wxMac
Build Info:
    wxWidgets: 3.0.3 (UTF-8,STL containers,compatible with 2.8)
    Boost: 1.65.1
    Curl: 7.57.0
    Compiler: Clang 9.0.0 with C++ ABI 1002

Build settings:
    USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=ON
    USE_WX_OVERLAY=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=OFF
    BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCE=OFF
    KICAD_SPICE=OFF

[Nick Østergaard (nickoe)]

I can't reproduce this issue on linux either.

bf44d394c35c23c8b319339719d26dc2ab5ee892

[Thomas Figueroa (tom-figueroa)]

I could not replicate this on master bf44d394c35c23c8b319339719d26dc2ab5ee892 on Windows 10.

[Nick Østergaard (nickoe)]

So at some point this has fixed, but I don't really know in whta commit and this is just a minor bug, so I will just mark it as invalid.