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Re: OSX: pcbnew comboboxes not working?

 

Le 30/11/2014 18:40, Bernhard Stegmaier a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> another annoying thing on OS X is that (at least for me) the comboboxes
> in pcbnew toolbar don’t work with the mouse:
> 
> You can click on the small arrow and then you see the contents, but you
> can’t click&change contents.
> You can click on the arrow, then move around using keyboard up/down
> keys, and select something using return key. 
> That works.
> 
> The layer selection combobox does work fine even with the mouse… but
> this doesn’t seem to be a “native” combobox.
> 
> Comboboxes in dialogs also seem to be fine with mouse (tried in "Text
> Properties”, “Footprint Properties”, “Grid Properties”). I didn’t see
> any real difference in creating the combox code-wise.
> 
> I had a similar problem way back in eeschema library editor when editing
> pins… I didn’t pay attention to it for a long time (used keyboard
> instead), but something unknown fixed it there, because now comboboxes
> work there as usual even with the mouse.
> 
> Any ideas why it is like this and maybe how to fix it?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Bernhard

There are only few wxComboBoxes in dialogs. most of these boxes are
wxChoice and wxBitmapComboBox (The layer selection is a wxBitmapComboBox).

try Dimensions/Grid and see if wxComboBoxes in "FastSwitching" work fine.


-- 
Jean-Pierre CHARRAS


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