From 2dd804a70f95515fbd9f17d98d230cbe8b508eb4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthias Koefferlein <matthias@klayout.de>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2026 14:31:47 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [consider merging] Bugfix: selecting a recent configuration
 in the editor options did not select the layer if it was freshly created

---
 src/layui/layui/layLayerControlPanel.cc | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/layui/layui/layLayerControlPanel.cc b/src/layui/layui/layLayerControlPanel.cc
index e12e72ca4..f0ec2337a 100644
--- a/src/layui/layui/layLayerControlPanel.cc
+++ b/src/layui/layui/layLayerControlPanel.cc
@@ -1950,6 +1950,9 @@ LayerControlPanel::do_update_content ()
     mp_layer_list->setRootIsDecorated (has_children);
     mp_layer_list->doItemsLayout ();
 
+    //  establishes the current layer in case it was changed during the "in update" phase
+    mp_layer_list->set_current (lay::LayerPropertiesConstIterator (mp_view->get_properties (), m_current_layer));
+
     m_needs_update = false;
 
   } else if (m_needs_update) {