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 >
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