On 8/21/2018 11:19 AM, jp charras wrote: > Le 21/08/2018 à 15:57, Wayne Stambaugh a écrit : >> Prior to the release of version 5, the default behavior of the escape >> key when using a tool in Eeschema changed from cancel the current >> operation to cancel the current operation and enable the select tool >> (close the current tool). Prior to this change, two escape key presses >> were required. The first escape key press aborted the current tool >> action and the second escape key press exited the tool. Why was this >> changed? I don't remember any discussion on the developers mailing list >> about changing this. Now, every time you abort a tool action (say >> drawing a wire) you have to re-select the tool to resume your work. I >> would prefer that we change this back to the old behavior. Before we >> make any behavioral changes like this again, please get feedback from >> the development team. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Wayne > > Hi Wayne, > I just have a look into it (it affects also Pcbnew in legacy mode) > I am thinking it is a side effect of some change in key event management. > It is a bug in EDA_DRAW_PANEL::OnKeyEvent(): when the ESC key is > pressed, the key is captured, but EDA_DRAW_PANEL::OnKeyEvent() skips > this event, and because it is skipped (should not) a second event is > fired (as usual). > > I have a basic fix for that. > I am just trying to understand why in 4.0 there is no problem, with a > similar code. > >
JP, Thank you for taking a look at this. The current behavior is not helping my productivity. Cheers, Wayne _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
