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Re: Modifier keys for hotkeys

 

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 6:58 PM, jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Le 15/12/2014 20:26, John Beard a écrit :
>> On Sun, 2014-12-14 at 20:04 +0100, jp charras wrote:
>>> Le 14/12/2014 03:02, John Beard a écrit :
>>>> I'm trying to get a hotkey defined as "Ctrl-Shift-D". Currently, I can
>>>> make it work easily in GAL mode, but not in the legacy mode.
>>>> ....
>>>> The first check will refuse to set the shift modifier unless the keycode
>>>> is more than 256 (so all normal letters fail this).
>>>>
>>> Yes I know (for the shift key).
> ....
>
> Can you test rev 5325 ?
> Shift key modifier should work, also in hotkey editor (your patch helped
> me).
> Thanks for your interest in Kicad

This appears to work as I would expect it to.

I have also merged up the move-exact feature branch to take advantage of this,
see the ongoing merge request [1].

Cheers,

John

[1] https://code.launchpad.net/~john-j-beard/kicad/moveexact/+merge/243870


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