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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ian,

I merged your patch into the 5.1 branch.  Thank you for your
contribution to KiCad.

I'm not sure a check on start up is necessary.  Your solution gives the
user clear warning about duplicate and invalid hotkeys in the
preferences dialog.  If you do decide to add a warning on start up,
please make it possible to never show it again.

Cheers,

Wayne

On 6/11/19 12:47 PM, Ian McInerney wrote:
> Attached is a patch that adds in hotkey validation/checking to the 5.1
> branch. This will display error messages with the hotkeys when the user
> edits the hotkeys, and notifies the user that there are invalid hotkeys
> when viewing the list. It also checks imported files for their validity,
> and warns the user when errors are found.
> 
> Currently, it does not check on startup of the program. It will only
> check when a user is already editing/viewing the hotkeys. The only time
> this actively prevents the user from doing something is when they enter
> an invalid hotkey when changing a hotkey, other than that it is a
> notification system.
> 
> I have been on the fence about adding a startup check of the hotkeys
> that will then direct the user to the preferences menu to fix them, but
> in 5.1 that would be so scattered it would be somewhat painful to do it
> nicely.
> 
> This does not apply to the master branch currently, since Jeff just
> pushed the start of the hotkey infrastructure rework to it. Eventually I
> do want to add this to master, but I need to analyze his changes first
> and figure out the best way of implementing it on the new framework.
> 
> -Ian
> 
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