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[Garth Corral <gcorral@xxxxxxxxx>]

> On Jul 1, 2015, at 2:31 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On 7/1/2015 4:17 PM, Garth Corral wrote:
>> The Cmd-C issue may well be a wxWidgets bug, but it is still an issue for kicad users. There are many such issues in kicad where OS X specific issues must be worked around.
>> 
>> As for the window manager capturing the functions keys, yes, that is what I said.  The fact that F10 was skipped for canvas switching means that kicad is catering to a specific platform.  I’m not likely to switch window managers on OS X, nor are other OS X users. Yes we could remap our keys but why should we?  This should work out of the box.
> 
> While I agree with you in principal, can you imagine what a mess our hot
> key definition code would look like if we had to avoid window manager
> key mappings for every Linux WM?  Good luck with that.  AFAIK, there is
> no wxWidgets code for determining WM key mapping so fixing the mapping
> at run time is also not likely.  That being said, if you run into an
> issue, please send a patch with the requisite #ifdef/#endif wrapped OSX
> specific key mappings.

So, any thoughts, OS X folks?  It would be nice if the canvas switching had hotkeys that worked out of the box.

Garth

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