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Re: Bugs in hotkey assignments - cannot differentiate NumPad hotkeys.

 

Hi Clemens,

We would really appreciate if bug reports were kept on the bug tracker.
I am afraid this report will be lost after a few days of mailing list
traffic, unless someone fixes the problem right now.

Regards,
Orson

On 04/19/2017 10:49 PM, Clemens Koller wrote:
> Hi, there!
> 
> I am starting a new, clean EESchema - latest git of today.
> The default Hotkeys are Zoom In = F1, Zoom Out = F2, etc...
> 
> Issue 1:
> I was planning to change the Zoom In/Out hotkeys in Preferences - Schematic Editor Options - Controls to use
> Zoom In = NumPad + and Zoom Out = NumPad -
> 
> The issue is, that the Set Hotkey dialog actually recognizes the NumPad +/- keystroke and closes, but it doesn't accepted the Hotkey assignments. F1 and F2 still stays as before without further notice.
> 
> Using the non-NumPad + and - keys seem to work, but they might be used in a different way later on as these are just different keys.
> So, why doesn't Kicad recognize the NumPad Keys, why doesn't Kicad regognize different keys as such?
> 
> 
> Issue 2:
> The Tooltips of the Zoom buttons don't get updated with the newly assigned keys. The still show F1 and F2 for the zooming whereas + and - was assigned.
> Can we fix that?
> 
> 
> This might be related to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1562617
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Clemens
> 
> 
> Version information:
> Application: kicad
> Version: (2017-04-19 revision 1366cf6ac)-master, release build
> Libraries: wxWidgets 3.0.2
>            libcurl/7.53.1 OpenSSL/1.0.2k zlib/1.2.11 libpsl/0.17.0 (+libicu/58.2) libssh2/1.8.0
> Platform: Linux 4.10.10-1-ARCH x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
> - Build Info -
> wxWidgets: 3.0.2 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
> Boost: 1.63.0
> Curl: 7.53.1
> KiCad - Compiler: GCC 6.3.1 with C++ ABI 1010
>         Settings: USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
>                   USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
>                   KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
>                   KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
>                   KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
>                   KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=OFF
>                   BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
>                   KICAD_USE_OCE=OFF
> 
> 
> 
> 
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