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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/12/2015 3:51 PM, jp charras wrote:
> Le 12/07/2015 21:12, Andrew Zonenberg a écrit :
>> I pushed a patch to advanced-feature-bugfixes that hides the
>> cursor when the mouse is outside the window. This only applies to
>> GAL and does not change legacy.
>>
>> JP, can you be more specific about what would break in legacy if I 
>> were to do the same?
>>
>>
> 
> When you are clicking on a component or a pin in schematic editor, the
> graphic cursor of the board editor ( in legacy mode) is moved to the
> footprint or the pad.
> 
> When you are clicking on a footprint or a pad, the graphic cursor of
> the schematic editor ( in legacy mode) is moved to the component or
> the pin in schematic editor.
> 
> if the graphic cursor is hidden, the cross probing shows nothing.
> 

Oops!  Good catch JP.  I forgot about that.  The cross-probing should
work the same way (at least as much as possible) in both canvases.  I
use this feature quite a bit on dual monitor setups.  That being said,
we should be able to clear the crosshair when leaving the canvas and
redraw the crosshair when a crossprobing message is received unless
another mouse leave message is sent after the crossprobe event occurs.
I would expect that's not the case but occasionally there are some
surprise messages that get sent by wxWidgets.