Added a marker attribute to turn off label frames: Marker#text_frame_enabled. Set it to false to disable the frame

src/laybasic/laybasic/gsiDeclLayMarker.cc

@@ -197,6 +197,19 @@ Class<lay::ManagedDMarker> decl_Marker ("lay", "Marker",
     "@brief Gets the halo flag\n"
     "See \\halo= for a description of the halo flag."
   ) +
+  gsi::method ("text_frame_enabled=", (void (lay::ManagedDMarker::*) (bool)) &lay::ManagedDMarker::set_text_frame_enabled, gsi::arg ("enabled"),
+    "@brief Enables or disables the label frame\n"
+    "With the value set to true (the default), texts (labels) are drawn with a frame indicating the label dimension.\n"
+    "To turn off that frame, set this attribute to false.\n"
+    "\n"
+    "This attribute has been introduced in version 0.30.7."
+  ) +
+  gsi::method ("text_frame_enabled", (bool (lay::ManagedDMarker::*) () const) &lay::ManagedDMarker::is_text_frame_enabled,
+    "@brief Gets a value indicating whether label frames are enabled\n"
+    "See \\text_frame_enabled= for a description of this attribute."
+    "\n"
+    "This attribute has been introduced in version 0.30.7."
+  ) +
   gsi::method ("dither_pattern=", (void (lay::ManagedDMarker::*) (int)) &lay::ManagedDMarker::set_dither_pattern, gsi::arg ("index"),
     "@brief Sets the stipple pattern index\n"
     "A value of -1 or less than zero indicates that the marker is not filled. Otherwise, the "

src/laybasic/laybasic/layMarker.cc

@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ void render_cell_inst (const db::Layout &layout, const db::CellInstArray &inst,
 
 MarkerBase::MarkerBase (lay::LayoutViewBase *view)
   : lay::ViewObject (view ? view->canvas () : 0),
-    m_line_width (-1), m_vertex_size (-1), m_halo (-1), m_text_enabled (true), m_vertex_shape (lay::ViewOp::Rect), m_line_style (-1), m_dither_pattern (-1), m_frame_pattern (0), mp_view (view)
+    m_line_width (-1), m_vertex_size (-1), m_halo (-1), m_text_enabled (true), m_text_frame_enabled (true), m_vertex_shape (lay::ViewOp::Rect), m_line_style (-1), m_dither_pattern (-1), m_frame_pattern (0), mp_view (view)
 { 
   // .. nothing yet ..
 }
@@ -266,6 +266,15 @@ MarkerBase::set_text_enabled (bool en)
   }
 }
 
+void
+MarkerBase::set_text_frame_enabled (bool en)
+{
+  if (m_text_frame_enabled != en) {
+    m_text_frame_enabled = en;
+    redraw ();
+  }
+}
+
 void
 MarkerBase::set_frame_pattern (int frame_pattern)
 {
@@ -638,7 +647,7 @@ ShapeMarker::render (const Viewport &vp, ViewObjectCanvas &canvas)
   if (trans_vector ()) {
     for (std::vector<db::DCplxTrans>::const_iterator tr = trans_vector ()->begin (); tr != trans_vector ()->end (); ++tr) {
       db::CplxTrans t = vp.trans () * *tr * trans ();
-      if (m_shape.is_text () && text) {
+      if (m_shape.is_text () && text && is_text_frame_enabled ()) {
         //  draw a frame around the text
         lay::TextInfo ti (view ());
         db::DCplxTrans vp_trans = vp.trans () * *tr;
@@ -654,7 +663,7 @@ ShapeMarker::render (const Viewport &vp, ViewObjectCanvas &canvas)
     }
   } else {
     db::CplxTrans t = vp.trans () * trans ();
-    if (m_shape.is_text () && text) {
+    if (m_shape.is_text () && text && is_text_frame_enabled ()) {
       //  draw a frame around the text
       lay::TextInfo ti (view ());
       db::Text t;
@@ -1118,7 +1127,7 @@ Marker::draw (lay::Renderer &r, const db::CplxTrans &t, lay::CanvasPlane *fill,
     //  TODO: in order to draw the box we'd need a separation of dbu-to-micron and micron-to-pixel transformations ...
     r.draw (*m_object.text, t, fill, contour, vertex, text);
   } else if (m_type == DText) {
-    if (view () && text) {
+    if (view () && text && is_text_frame_enabled ()) {
       //  draw a frame around the text
       lay::TextInfo ti (view ());
       db::DCplxTrans dt (t);
@@ -1323,7 +1332,7 @@ DMarker::render (const Viewport &vp, ViewObjectCanvas &canvas)
   } else if (m_type == Path) {
     r.draw (*m_object.path, t, fill, contour, vertex, text);
   } else if (m_type == Text) {
-    if (view () && text) {
+    if (view () && text && is_text_frame_enabled ()) {
       //  draw a frame around the text
       lay::TextInfo ti (view ());
       db::DBox box = ti.bbox (*m_object.text, t).enlarged (text_box_enlargement (t));

src/laybasic/laybasic/layMarker.h

@@ -232,6 +232,22 @@ public:
    */
   void set_text_enabled (bool en);
 
+  /**
+   *  @brief Gets a value indicating whether text frame drawing is enabled
+   *
+   *  If this value is true (the default), labels are drawn with a frame indicating the text box.
+   *  Set this value to value to disable the text box.
+   */
+  bool is_text_frame_enabled () const
+  {
+    return m_text_frame_enabled;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   *  @brief Sets a value indicating whether text drawing is enabled
+   */
+  void set_text_frame_enabled (bool en);
+
   /**
    *  @brief Gets the bounding box
    */
@@ -255,6 +271,7 @@ private:
   tl::Color m_frame_color;
   int m_line_width, m_vertex_size, m_halo;
   bool m_text_enabled;
+  bool m_text_frame_enabled;
   lay::ViewOp::Shape m_vertex_shape;
   int m_line_style, m_dither_pattern, m_frame_pattern;
   lay::LayoutViewBase *mp_view;