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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Regression fixed in 6505, feel free to continue testing :)

On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 12:05:51PM +0100, jp charras wrote:
> Le 21/01/2016 04:44, Chris Pavlina a écrit :
> > There is an old bug that people turned up while testing my new hotkey 
> > editor, attached is a patch that fixes it. This patch pokes into the 
> > main hotkey handling code, so I really want as many people to test it as 
> > possible - it's a relatively minor bug, I don't want to go introducing 
> > twelve regressions to fix one small bug. Here's what I want to keep an 
> > eye out for:
> > 
> > - Hotkeys (Ctrl+Tab), (Tab), and (Ctrl+I) are all independent and 
> >   distinguished from each other, both in the hotkey editor and in actual 
> >   use. Make sure all of them work, and make sure none of them answers 
> >   for the others.
> > 
> > - Hotkeys that are *not* handled by the main hotkey code (for example, 
> >   menu keys like Alt+F to call up the File menu) are not affected.
> > 
> > - Behavior on OSX, with its weird Ctrl mapping, is not broken (or, at 
> >   least, is no more broken than usual ;)
> > 
> > I have tested on Linux and Windows 10, though more thorough testing on 
> > those platforms is welcome.
> > 
> > Patch/bug summary:
> > 
> > [PATCH] Fix (Ctrl)+(ASCII control key) hotkey handling
> > 
> > wxWidgets has quirks with how it handles these keys. For example, in
> > wxEVT_CHAR, Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+I are indistinguishable.
> > 
> > - Modify the special wxEVT_CHAR_HOOK handler from WIDGET_HOTKEY_LIST to
> >   handle this case as well as the other funny cases it already handles.
> > 
> > - Factor this handler out into a function in hotkeys_basic.h for use
> >   elsewhere.
> > 
> > - Add this handler to the central hotkey handler, remove existing
> >   (buggy) ASCII control key handling.
> > 
> > Thanks for testing.
> 
> I tested it on W7 32. No problem.
> 
> However during tests, I saw a regression:
> in Eeschema only, hotkeys are no more saved.
> When a hotkey is changed, after closing and rerun Kicad, the default
> hotkey if used (the change is lost).
> And no xx.hotkeys is created after changing a hotkey in Eeschema.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
> 
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