Comment 47 for bug 1823087

On 4/10/2019 12:12 PM, jean-pierre charras wrote:
> There are 2 very different problems:
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> 1 - zone plotting works fine with painted zones.
> However the ZONE_FILLER has a bug: when the fill mode is SEGMENTS, in fact the filled polygons list is cleared but not recreated, so the list filled polygon list and the list of segments to fill the zone are empty.
> I just fixed that (it was a basic fix).

Thanks

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> Because the plot dialog ask for refilling zone, once the user has
> refilled the zone from the dialog (or the B key), the entire fill data
> is lost.
>
> To be clear:
> when filled by polygons, the zone contains the list of solid polygons.
> when filled by segments, the zone contains this list of solid polygons *and* a list of segments.

When the next zone fill occurs with zones defined as segment fills, is
the old segment fill information removed from the board? If we don't
support segment fills any longer, then all segment zone filling
information should be removed from the board.

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> 2 - Now because painting areas is fully deprecated, always using only the list of polygons should not change anything for the user.
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> About the issue with the board vendor "that doesn't support polygon fills", I am pretty sure this is not the actual problem, because filled polygons are also used to plot pads.
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