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[Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Wayne,

I wrote the whole PushTool/PopTool stuff exactly for that case.  Which action in particular is going back to the SelectionTool?

(Note that some are “supposed” to.  If you click on a tool in the toolbar, or select it from the Place menu, then cancelling should take you back to the SelectionTool.  However, if you use the context menu or a hotkey, it should push and then pop the drawing tool.  Not to say that it’s not buggy, or that the design behaviour isn’t optimal.)

Cheers,
Jeff.

PS: should I make the same changes to Pcbnew, or should be await more feedback?  (Feedback on the forums has been uniformly positive so far, but pretty sparse with only 3 likes.)


> On 18 Jun 2019, at 12:48, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hey Jeff,
> 
> I spent some time this morning playing around with the "immediate"
> hotkeys in Eeschema and it's better but there is still one annoying
> difference from the legacy behavior.  When cancelling (escape key) a
> drawing in progress, the drawing is aborted, the current tool is
> canceled, and the selection tool is enable.  The legacy behavior was
> abort the drawing in progress and keep the current tool enabled.  The
> current tool would only be canceled when it was not busy drawing
> something.  It's rather cumbersome to have to keep enabling the drawing
> tool every time you exit a drawing when you make a mistake.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Wayne
> 
> On 6/15/2019 3:45 PM, Jeff Young wrote:
>> I’ve checked in code which makes the drawing hotkeys “immediate” in Eeschema and the Symbol Editor.  It was more involved than I was expecting, so there may be some nasty surprises.
>> 
>> I folks like it, I can apply the same architecture to Pcbnew.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Jeff.
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