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[Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

No, and I'll be adding that feature for 6.0

On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 1:14 PM Drew Van Zandt <drew.vanzandt@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> On this general topic, is there a technical reason that one cannot assign
> a shortcut key for "select whole net"?
>
>
> *Drew Van Zandt*
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 2:13 PM jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Le 26/04/2019 à 19:21, Jeff Young a écrit :
>> > I’ve been talking to Wayne about the ‘W’ and ‘X’ hotkeys.  It appears
>> the design goal is to have these be immediate actions (that is, they start
>> a wire or a track, rather than just selecting the wire or track tool).
>> >
>> > Presumably this would then also apply to ‘A’, ‘P’, ‘L’, ‘H’, ‘J’, ‘Q’,
>> etc.  (None of these perform an immediate action today, right?)
>>
>> In short: Yes. This is how the hotkeys worked, previously.
>> >
>> > Do we want there to be some related way to select the tools?  That is,
>> if ‘Q’ places a no-connect then shift-Q would select the no-connect tool?
>> If yes, would these be separately editable, or would they simply follow
>> whatever the user changed the main hotkeys to?
>> >
>> > Or is there some other facility that’s already supposed to work for
>> tools?
>>
>> Why do you want to change the previous behavior? Is it not good?
>>
>> The reason of the behavior ('W' starts a wire and 'shift W' selects the
>> tool) is the fact we cannot (if we use the hotkey as accelerator) know
>> if a menu was clicked (in this case the mouse position is irrelevant) or
>> if a hotkey was pressed (in this case the mouse position can be used and
>> we start a wire immediately).
>> Therefore we cannot use the same key as hotkey and accelerator key.
>>
>> It is extremely hard to fix this issue because the workaround to fix it
>> are only workaround (and therefore can stop working after wxWidgets
>> changes) and each platform has its own workaround.
>>
>> For instance, if the 'W' key is used both as accelerator key and hotkey,
>> the key event is not generated on Windows (only the menu event), but is
>> generated on wxGTK.
>> I don't know what happens on OSX.
>>
>> Hotkey behavior versus accelerator key behavior is always strange.
>> And this is not only when using wxWidgets:
>> I found issues in many other applications (Using a French keyboard
>> instead of a US keyboard often shows these strange behaviors)
>>
>> Trying to fix this issue is a mined field.
>>
>> Wayne and me spent a lot of time about that without success.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
>>
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