Ah yes, of course, all that makes sense. Thanks for explaining it. Alt+F8 is available, so attached is a patch using that as the default (and with IS_ACCELERATOR). thanks, Dan
On Tuesday, September 26, 2017 at 6:57 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > Hey Dan, > > I have a few comments on your patches. > > The "Update PCB from Schematic" patch uses a duplicate hotkey. F8 is > already assigned to the HK_SWITCH_LAYER_TO_INNER4 command ID. Check the > pcbnew/hotkeys.cpp file for the list of assigned hotkey. Also, you are > using F8 as a menu accelerator not a hotkey which requires you to add > the IS_ACCEL HOTKEY_ACTION_TYPE to the AddHotkeyName() call. You are > going to have to choose a different hotkey and resubmit your patch. > > Technically the file name fix patch works but you should use the > wxFileName( path, name, ext) ctor to create the full file name. I've > been trying to weed out this particular issue in KiCad but I must have > missed this one. Also, there is no need to wrap "%s.%s" in with the > internationalization macro _(). There is no text to translate in the > string. I will fix this one now that I know where the issue exists. > > Thanks, > > Wayne > > On 9/25/2017 7:19 PM, Dan Green wrote: > > Hi all, here are two patches to address some minor issues with the "Update > > PCB from Schematic” tool when called from pcbnew. The first adds the F8 > > hotkey to match eeschema. The second fixes a bug that happens if the > > project name contains a period (e.g.: MyProject_rev1.2). In this case, the > > wxFileName command SetExt() would detect an existing extension as “2” and > > replace it with “sch”. Thus using the tool from pcbnew would make it look > > for (and hopefully not find!) MyProject_rev1.sch. The bug wouldn’t happen > > if the schematic window was already open, so it was pretty rare. > > thanks! > > Dan > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > Post to : [email protected] > > (mailto:[email protected]) > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > (mailto:[email protected]) > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
0001-Added-hotkey-in-pcbnew-for-Update-PCB-from-Schematic.patch
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