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Re: Mac OSX Cmd vs Ctrl

 

Just a heads up, on line 158 of pcbnew/hotkeys.cpp CTRL+R is defined as the
hotkey for Zoom Redraw on OS X.

Jon

On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 5:57 AM, jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Le 03/07/2015 00:13, Andy Peters a écrit :
> >
> >> On Jul 2, 2015, at 3:11 PM, Andy Peters <devel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> On Jul 2, 2015, at 12:37 AM, jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Le 01/07/2015 22:21, Garth Corral a écrit :
> >>>>
> >>>>> On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:22 PM, jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>>> wrote:
> >>>> <snip>
> >>>>
> >>>>> The "issue" relative to Ctrl / Cmd is not clear for me.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Is it just the name "Ctrl" which should be displayed "Cmd" (which
> >>>>> is rather easy to change) or is it something else ?
> >>>>>
> >>>> I think you are correct that it is merely an issue with the display
> >>>> of hotkeys in the list and not an issue in the definition of the
> >>>> keys.
> >>>>
> >>>> Garth
> >>>
> >>> Can you try the rev 5853.
> >>>
> >>> I tried to use Cmd instead of Ctrl on Mac OSX.
> >>> Cmd replaces Ctrl in Hotkey list and menus (the result is for example
> to
> >>> run Pcbnew from Kicad, the accelerator key is Cmd + P and no more Ctrl
> + P.
> >>>
> >>> I cannot test it on my PC.
> >>>
> >>> The Hotkeys config files (if any) should be compatible between OSX and
> >>> others systems.
> >>> (in config files Cmd and Ctrl modifiers are equivalent)
> >>
> >> Jean-Pierre, I think a regression was introduced. I am on Adam’s build
> of 5871.
> >>
> >> ‘R’ is the hotkey for rotate in both pcbnew and eeschema. But now it’s
> acting as View | Redraw in both. I noticed that it wasn’t rotating a symbol
> but instead the menu briefly highlighted, so I looked further.
> >>
> >> Similarly, ’S’ has a conflict between File Save and Set Grid Origin,
> and ‘F’ has a conflict between Find and Flip.
> >>
> >> File Save should be cmd-S and Find should be cmd-F. I will look for
> other conflicts.
> >
> >
> > One more: ‘Z’ conflicts between Undo and Reset Grid Origin. Undo is
> usually Cmd-Z.
> >
> > -a
>
> This is bit strange: the changes mainly can have modified the
> accelerator keys which are displayed in the main menubar, but not others
> (there is not change in the code which manages the hotkeys).
> The changes also can have modified the hotkey config files, if you have
> edited your hotkey table.
>
> Are they correctly listed in the list of hotkeys ?
>
> the case of the 'R' key is strange (unless you have edited your hotkeys
> table).
> View | Redraw is F3 key which cannot be confused with R or Cmd+R
>
> In Pcbnew, what happens when you press 'B' (refill zones) and 'Cmd+B'
> (remove zone filling) ?
>
>
> --
> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
>
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