That was my thought: sort of a push-tool/pop-tool. > On 14 Jun 2019, at 14:36, Seth Hillbrand <s...@hillbrand.org> wrote: > > On 2019-06-14 07:59, Jeff Young wrote: >> My plan had been to support both two-step (first selects tool; second >> draws object) and immediate (always draws) actions, and let the user >> assign the hotkey to the one they prefer. >> But I’m discovering a bunch of things that are unsettling about it. >> It hard to discover if we chose the default option that’s not the one >> you wanted. Which actions does the Place menu show? It kind of has >> to do a select-tool action, but that’s inconsistent if the tool is >> already selected. And to make matters worse, you’d really like to >> show the immediate hotkeys there because that’s the first place people >> will look. >> Then I had an epiphany: it’s easy enough to distinguish select-tool >> from draw-object contextually (did they use the menu or not?); the >> real differentiator between two-step and immediate is whether or not >> the tool remains selected after the object is drawn. >> So how about if we add a preference for that instead? > > > Would the preference support returning to the current tool after the action > is complete? As in, I am using the routing tool but then I want to move a > footprint. Can I use the immediate hotkey to move the footprint and then > still be in the router tool after placing the footprint? > > -Seth
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