In the "Update Footprints from Library" window (attached), when replacing a footprint the visibility of the text on the F.Fab layer does not change despite the box "Reset text layers and visibilities" being ticked.
I have made the Value field (on the F.Fab layer) invisible and saved the footprint, but the change is not taken into account.
Expected behaviour: if the box "Reset text layers and visibilities" is ticked, the visibility should be updated.
Actual behaviour: the visibility of the text is not updated.
Workaround: ticking the box "Reset text sizes, styles and positions" does change the visibility and resets the position of all texts.
Application: kicad
Version: (5.1.2)-1, release build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.0.4
libcurl/7.61.1 OpenSSL/1.1.1 (WinSSL) zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.6 libidn2/2.0.5 libpsl/0.20.2 (+libidn2/2.0.5) nghttp2/1.34.0
Platform: Windows 8 (build 9200), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW
Build Info:
wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
Boost: 1.68.0
OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
Curl: 7.61.1
Compiler: GCC 8.2.0 with C++ ABI 1013
Build settings:
USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
KICAD_SPICE=ON
Turns out the visible bit is part of the Effects bitfield, so the value of the "Reset text sizes, styles and positions" essentially overrides the "Reset visibility" checkbox.