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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/5/2015 9:54 AM, Paulo Henrique Silva wrote:
> 
>     I cannot recall why it has been done that way (maybe wx2.8 issue?).
>     Currently the Tool Framework handles the hot keys in its own way, so
>     there is a chance that passing the events would not be necessary.
> 
>     Unfortunately, there is another issue - with the patch applied, one
>     cannot draw a selection box in GAL. Does not it happen with OS X?

That's what I was afraid of.

> 
> 
> Selection box works for me on OSX with patch applied.
> 
> Regarding to pass or not the event as Wayne mentions, regular canvas
> appears to do the same as I did on the patch (see common/draw_panel.cpp
> line 1404-1405).

The default canvas checks to see if the event was handled and calls
wxEvent::Skip() if the return from EDA_DRAW_FRAME::GeneralControle()
indicates that it should be skipped.  I'm not sure the new tool
framework behavior is the same.

> 
> Does anyone actually got the beep on GAL on other platforms? If not I
> can dig a little and check if it something with wxOSX specifically.

No beep on windows 7 pro using kicad r5351 and wx 3.0.2.

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- Paulo