PIns/Via show Name/Number menu item doesn't work, only D hotkey does

[Britton Kerin]

Activating the menu item doesn't do anything under gtk at least. It doesn't act on the selected item or items, and it doesn't put pcb in its "expect-an-item-to-be-selected" state.

The d hotkey does work. In practice using this via the menu is so cumbersome that probably nobody does it, but its confusing to have the menu item broken this way.

I would probably "fix" this by just making the menu item pop up an info dialog telling the user to use the hot key instead.

[Nicklas Karlsson (nicklas-karlsson17)]

I could confirm this bug.

[Nicklas Karlsson (nicklas-karlsson17)]

Good solution is probably to remove cross hair then exiting active drawing area.

[Nicklas Karlsson (nicklas-karlsson17)]

In GTK there is a "focus-out-event", then starting pcb with pointer outside drawing area cross hair end up at coordinate zero.

[Nicklas Karlsson (nicklas-karlsson17)]

Solution is probably to to figure out how pcb keep track of pointer coordinate validity and invalidate.

In file "gui_act.c" the following code is executed:
  notify_mark_change(false);
  Marked.status = false;
  notify_mark_change(true);

The code probably invalidate the coordinate and to invalidate the coordinate from "focus-out-event" might be the solution.

[Chad Parker (parker-charles)]

Just a note here: Bert committed a fix for this bug into master on 2016-04-24. The fix prompts the user to select an element.