From a3593efa18092cb6b589d7a4836473165373e621 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthias Koefferlein <matthias@klayout.de>
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2025 17:36:07 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Layer settings are now better preserved between calls of
 boolean, merge and size dialogs

---
 src/layui/layui/layWidgets.cc | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/layui/layui/layWidgets.cc b/src/layui/layui/layWidgets.cc
index 1efdbfa82..d0f1eda6b 100644
--- a/src/layui/layui/layWidgets.cc
+++ b/src/layui/layui/layWidgets.cc
@@ -781,6 +781,18 @@ LayerSelectionComboBox::set_current_layer (const db::LayerProperties &props)
 void 
 LayerSelectionComboBox::set_current_layer (int l)
 {
+  const db::Layout *layout = mp_private->layout;
+  if (! layout && mp_private->view) {
+    const CellView &cv = mp_private->view->cellview (mp_private->cv_index);
+    if (cv.is_valid ()) {
+      layout = & cv->layout ();
+    }
+  }
+
+  if (l >= 0 && layout && layout->is_valid_layer ((unsigned int) l)) {
+    mp_private->last_props = layout->get_properties ((unsigned int) l);
+  }
+
   if (l < 0) {
     setCurrentIndex (-1);
   } else {