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[Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

No change.  (Still works, still missing from menu.)

I can look into it later, if you like….

Cheers,
Jeff.


> On 12 Aug 2018, at 14:28, jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Le 12/08/2018 à 11:42, Jeff Young a écrit :
>> Alt-BkSp works on OSX (performs a Leave Sheet), but does not show up in
>> the menu:
>> 
>> 
>> It does show up in the Show Hotkeys dialog:
>> 
> 
> Hi Jeff,
> Could you have a look into common/hotkeys_basic.cpp, and in the 2 lines:
> 263 and 324, modify
> #ifdef  __LINUX__
> to enable it also on OSX, and see if  Alt-BkSp still works and is shown
> in menus.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On 9 Aug 2018, at 22:05, Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx
>>> <mailto:jeff@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I hope to have my tree back in working order tomorrow and could do
>>> this then….
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Jeff.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 9 Aug 2018, at 20:36, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
>>>> <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On 8/9/2018 1:11 PM, jp charras wrote:
>>>>> Le 09/08/2018 à 19:02, Wayne Stambaugh a écrit :
>>>>>> On 8/9/2018 12:06 PM, jp charras wrote:
>>>>>>> Eeschema uses accelerator key BkSp (exactly Alt+BkSp) in view menu
>>>>>>> (View/Leave Sheet).
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> This accelerator works fine on Windows, and generates a warning on
>>>>>>> Linux
>>>>>>> (and is not shown in menu)
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Reason:
>>>>>>> On Linux (GTK?) the accelerator key BkSp, when used in menus must be
>>>>>>> coded as "\t\b" and not "\tBkSp" (and the Alt+BkSp accelerator is
>>>>>>> \tAlt+\b)
>>>>>>> (\b is the ASCII code of Back Space key).
>>>>>>> However, On Windows, Alt+BkSp accelerator must be "\tAlt+BkSp".
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I just fixed this minor issue in commit 78ab5c3f07
>>>>>>> Can someone test this commit on OSX and see if "\tAlt+BkSp" is
>>>>>>> working?
>>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The gift that keeps on giving. ;)  Nice catch.  I wonder if the wx
>>>>>> folks
>>>>>> know this.  It would be nice if they fixed this one their end.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> This is probably the cause of this bug report:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1786113
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The fix for this should also be cherry picked into the 5.0 branch.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sure. I just need to know what happens on OSX.
>>>> 
>>>> Would one of our osx devs please check this for JP?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> 
>>>> Wayne
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Wayne
> 
> -- 
> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
> 
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