RE: [PROTEL EDA USERS]: Layers visibility (ex Re: Jump to a new location)

["Tony Karavidas" <tony@encoreelectronics.com>]

I really meant good job finding a new bug (new to me) I've been using Protel
tools since 1989 and found many bug and consider myself a power user, but
it's always interesting to hear about bugs that are obvious that I haven't
seen.

It kind of makes you realize how powerful an application is and how many
potential problems go un-noticed. By my, by you, by the developers, etc...

Tony



> -----Original Message-----
> From: TSListServer [mailto:owner-proteledausers@techservinc.com]On
> Behalf Of Geoff Harland
> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 9:35 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list proteledausers
> Subject: [PROTEL EDA USERS]: Layers visibility (ex Re: Jump to a new
> location)
>
>
> > > For editing the bottom silkscreen clearly, I temporarily
> close the other
> > > layers except Bottom silkscreen and bottom layer, But every time I use
> the
> > > short cut key J(jump) >> L(New location) to jump to a new
> > > location, ALL the
> > > layers are appeared. Is it another bug of P99SE? or anything I
> > > had missed?
> > >
> > > Robert,
>
> > It's a bug!! Good job!! I've never used that feature before. I
> normally do
> a
> > Jump Component, and it doesn't re-enable all layers like what you have
> > found. Report it to Protel directly if you haven't already.
> >
> > Tony Karavidas
>
> "Good job!!" ??! Or did you mean "Good Spotting" in the above
> post? (I'm not
> losing too much sleep over what you said, but the fewer the bugs
> that Protel
> has, the better.)
>
> Although I have not experienced this situation myself, this is
> not the only
> situation in which you can be "treated" to all of the layers being made
> visible. But this thread has reminded me that I have had plans of
> creating a
> Process within an addon Server which would be used to memorise and restore
> (as required) which layers are visible, to reduce the inconvenience caused
> by this "family" of bugs. (Reminds me a bit of a canoeing trip I took back
> in 1986, when the organisers demonstrated "Eskimo flips" to restore a
> flipped canoe to an upright position again.) Next Monday is a
> public holiday
> in NSW, and with the Olympic games finishing the night before, I might be
> able to cut some code then...
>
> Regards,
> Geoff Harland.
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