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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ian,

On 10/3/2019 1:53 PM, Ian McInerney wrote:
> Wayne,
> 
> Part of why I asked this is because in Eechema the context menu has the
> wire/bus tools (so you can start drawing a wire/bus) normally, but when
> you actually right-click on a pin location those tools aren't in the
> context menu. So it seemed weird to me to want to start drawing
> everywhere other than where a wire would normally start. Perhaps this is
> more of a bug with that menu though.

The action should definitely begin at the mouse right click position.

> 
> I know right now we have the option to turn off the immediate nature of
> the hotkey&menus at once (although it doesn't seem to actually have any
> effect on the hotkeys on the context menu, so I will look into that
> bug), but would you be open to having the option to turn off the
> immediate nature of the menus separate from the hotkeys?

I'm fine with this but it should default to the same behavior as the
default hotkey behavior (immediate) to prevent confusion.

> 
> -Ian
> 
> On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 1:44 AM Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     Ian,
> 
>     Context menus should behave the same as hotkeys at the canvas position
>     where the context menu was opened (right clicked).  In the legacy
>     canvas, this was the default behavior.  For the most part, the old
>     hotkey handler would send the equivalent context menu command event and
>     execute the same code path as the context menu command event.  If this
>     has changed, I would consider it a bug.  Context menu and main frame
>     menu command events are not the same thing and should not be treated as
>     such.
> 
>     Wayne
> 
>     On 10/2/19 5:19 PM, Ian McInerney wrote:
>     > I was noticing some odd behavior with the zone tool in the master
>     branch
>     > just now, specifically when you run an action of its through the
>     context
>     > menu (such as add zone cutout). When you select the menu item, it will
>     > begin drawing immediately, which on my Linux box causes some weird
>     > behavior (it will place the first point in the location where the
>     > context menu item was located and then move the cursor back to
>     where the
>     > menu originated, creating a line segment).
>     >
>     > The thing that confused me was the fact that it was trying to do an
>     > immediate action here. Isn't the policy to have the immediate actions
>     > triggered by the hotkeys and for the menus to just load the tool
>     so the
>     > user can just click to start it? I know that is how the menubar
>     > menus/toolbars operate, so I had thought that was also how the context
>     > menus were supposed to operate for these drawing commands as well.
>     >
>     > -Ian
>     >
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