Info on PadPainter

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Hi @devbisme @hildogjr or anybody using PadPainter succesfully

I was trying the plugin on 5.1.0 on Windows 7 and while the plugin runs, and seems to read the netlist (it notifies me when entering non existent footprint reference designator) it does not populate the units list. Is this a Windows issue (-cache.lib having a windows line endings) or is it a 5.1 issue (I think that -cache.lib has changed format during the V5 cycle.

But I should say that I am not really interested in plugin functionality per se. I want to see what do you need to do in order to Highligh() items. While I can highlight items when using pcbnew console, the same code does not work when run from action plugin. Did you test this on Windows also? Are there any special tricks?

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I’m not sure if I’m answering the right question, but PadPainter uses the SetBrightened() and ClearBrightened() methods for the Pad objects.

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Thanks for the answer. I did try to use those methods previously, but I did not managed to get them working. The reason is unknown as that was about a year ago. But now I got them working.

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