No, and I'll be adding that feature for 6.0 On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 1:14 PM Drew Van Zandt <drew.vanza...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On this general topic, is there a technical reason that one cannot assign > a shortcut key for "select whole net"? > > > *Drew Van Zandt* > > > On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 2:13 PM jp charras <jp.char...@wanadoo.fr> wrote: > >> Le 26/04/2019 à 19:21, Jeff Young a écrit : >> > I’ve been talking to Wayne about the ‘W’ and ‘X’ hotkeys. It appears >> the design goal is to have these be immediate actions (that is, they start >> a wire or a track, rather than just selecting the wire or track tool). >> > >> > Presumably this would then also apply to ‘A’, ‘P’, ‘L’, ‘H’, ‘J’, ‘Q’, >> etc. (None of these perform an immediate action today, right?) >> >> In short: Yes. This is how the hotkeys worked, previously. >> > >> > Do we want there to be some related way to select the tools? That is, >> if ‘Q’ places a no-connect then shift-Q would select the no-connect tool? >> If yes, would these be separately editable, or would they simply follow >> whatever the user changed the main hotkeys to? >> > >> > Or is there some other facility that’s already supposed to work for >> tools? >> >> Why do you want to change the previous behavior? Is it not good? >> >> The reason of the behavior ('W' starts a wire and 'shift W' selects the >> tool) is the fact we cannot (if we use the hotkey as accelerator) know >> if a menu was clicked (in this case the mouse position is irrelevant) or >> if a hotkey was pressed (in this case the mouse position can be used and >> we start a wire immediately). >> Therefore we cannot use the same key as hotkey and accelerator key. >> >> It is extremely hard to fix this issue because the workaround to fix it >> are only workaround (and therefore can stop working after wxWidgets >> changes) and each platform has its own workaround. >> >> For instance, if the 'W' key is used both as accelerator key and hotkey, >> the key event is not generated on Windows (only the menu event), but is >> generated on wxGTK. >> I don't know what happens on OSX. >> >> Hotkey behavior versus accelerator key behavior is always strange. >> And this is not only when using wxWidgets: >> I found issues in many other applications (Using a French keyboard >> instead of a US keyboard often shows these strange behaviors) >> >> Trying to fix this issue is a mined field. >> >> Wayne and me spent a lot of time about that without success. >> >> >> -- >> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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