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Footprint Editor, pad (unnumbered): could not find valid layer for pad.

Description

I wanted to make an aperture pad on F.Paste and halfway through the process I get a senseless and distracting message popup.

Steps to reproduce

  1. Place a pad in the Footprint Editor.

  2. Edit it's properties.

  3. Set Pad Type to SMD Aperture.

  4. Uncheck F.Paste

  5. Get this annoying popup message:
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  6. Forgot on which layer I wanted to make this aperture pad.

  7. ... Euhm, Ah, it was on F.Mask.

It's a good thing that KiCad wants to prevent me from making a pad with all layers disabled, but it should do this check only when clicking the [ OK ] button and not during changes of intermediate settings.

The behavior in JS-Reynaud-Nightly V5 an din KiCad-nightly V5.99 is the same in this regard.

KiCad Version V5.1.10

Application: KiCad
Version: 5.1.10-unknown-nightly-202110071751, release build
Libraries:
    wxWidgets 3.0.4
    libcurl/7.68.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1f zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.7 libidn2/2.2.0 libpsl/0.21.0 (+libidn2/2.2.0) libssh/0.9.3/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.40.0 librtmp/2.3
Platform: Linux 5.4.0-88-generic x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
Build Info:
    wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 3.24
    Boost: 1.71.0
    OpenCASCADE Technology: 7.5.2
    Curl: 7.68.0
    Compiler: GCC 9.3.0 with C++ ABI 1013

Build settings:
    USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
    USE_WX_OVERLAY=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
    BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCE=OFF
    KICAD_USE_OCC=ON
    KICAD_SPICE=ON

KiCad Version V5.99

Application: KiCad Footprint Editor

Version: 5.99.0-unknown-1b7358f93a~141~ubuntu20.04.1, release build

Libraries:
	wxWidgets 3.0.4

Platform: Linux 5.4.0-88-generic x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK, xfce, x11

	wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 3.24
	Boost: 1.71.0
	OCC: 7.5.2
	Curl: 7.68.0
	ngspice: 31
	Compiler: GCC 9.3.0 with C++ ABI 1013

Build settings:
	KICAD_USE_OCC=ON
	KICAD_SPICE=ON