pcbnew: hide Render->References doesn't affect fabrication layer

[Eldar Khayrullin]

If component has text field '%R' in fabrication layer then hide Render->References doesn't affect this field only silk screen.
But show/hide Render->Values works fine in fabrication layer.

kicad@24a9003
Daily PPA.
OS: Ubuntu 16.10

[Wayne Stambaugh (stambaughw)]

%R should only be used for string substitutions. Use REF** for the reference field. Please see bug report https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1669281 for a full explanation of the difference between the two conventions. That being said, even REF** does not get hidden on any layer except the silkscreen layers. Interestingly VAL** does appear to get turned off on other layers.

[Maciej Suminski (orsonmmz)]

Strange-it-works-here(tm), Wayne - could you verify with the current HEAD? I have not applied any patches to fix the problem, but I can disable both references and values either by uncheckign Render/{References,Values} or appropriate layers (*.Silks, *.Fab, etc).

[Wayne Stambaugh (stambaughw)]

Orson, I attached a screen shot of the issue. As you can see in the screen shot, "References" is unchecked. The F.Fab layer is checked in the layer tab. I would expect all references (REF**) to be hidden irregardless on what layer they reside. This is the gal canvas.

[Wayne Stambaugh (stambaughw)]

Orson, I attached a screen shot of the issue. As you can see in the screen shot, "References" is unchecked. The F.Fab layer is checked in the layer tab. I would expect all references (REF**) to be hidden irregardless on what layer they reside. This is the gal canvas.

[jean-pierre charras (jp-charras)]

I cannot reproduce this bug.

@Wayne:
If you are using footprints recently downloaded from github, most of them have now REF*** on the silkscreen layer, and a %R on the F.Fab layer.

[Wayne Stambaugh (stambaughw)]

My bad. Apparently at some point the reference on the F.Fab layer of
the footprints I used in my design were changed from %R to REF** so I
was seeing REF** in the footprint library viewer. I took a look in my
board file and sure enough, the F.Fab layer reference is %R. Sorry
about noise.

On 7/23/2017 2:40 AM, jean-pierre charras wrote:
> I cannot reproduce this bug.
>
> @Wayne:
> If you are using footprints recently downloaded from github, most of them have now REF*** on the silkscreen layer, and a %R on the F.Fab layer.
>