pcbnew Block Operations dialog grows uncontrollably

[Dtux]

In Pcbnew when i use block selection , the dialog box namaed "block operation " grow up after each opening, until exceed screen size.

Debian stretch (testing)/Openbox
Version: 4.0.2+dfsg1-stable release build
wxWidgets: Version 3.0.2 (debug,wchar_t,compiler with C++ ABI 1009,GCC 5.3.1,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
Platform: Linux 4.4.0-1-686-pae i686, 32 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
Boost version: 1.58.0
         USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
         USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
         KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
         KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
         KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
         USE_FP_LIB_TABLE=HARD_CODED_ON
         BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=OFF

idem with Debian jessie (stable) and kicad 0.20140622+bzr4027-3

[Jeff Young (jeyjey)]

@Dtux, does this still happen?

@Everyone, can anyone else reproduce this? (Please give details if so.)

[Dtux (vortex-enrg)]

Yes it's still happen.
I use Openbox alone, i think it's a part of problem...

Version: 4.0.7+dfsg1-1 release build
wxWidgets: Version 3.0.3 (debug,wchar_t,compiler with C++ ABI 1011,GCC 7.2.0,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
Platform: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
Boost version: 1.62.0
Curl version: libcurl/7.57.0 OpenSSL/1.0.2n zlib/1.2.8 libidn2/2.0.4 libpsl/0.19.1 (+libidn2/2.0.4) libssh2/1.8.0 nghttp2/1.29.0 librtmp/2.3

Debian testing / OpenBox

[Nick Østergaard (nickoe)]

That is truely strange. Can you try to reproduce with another window manager? Maybe i3 or whatever gnome uses?

[Dtux (vortex-enrg)]

No bug with I3...

[Jeff Young (jeyjey)]

Note that this affects other dialogs as well.

[Seth Hillbrand (sethh)]

This issue is not visible on xfce or gnome.

I'm setting to won't fix for now as we can't support all window managers' quirks. If someone running Openbox or other wm that has this issue wants to address, we'll look at merging a patch.

[John Beard (john-j-beard)]

I also cannot reproduce on Arch with i3.

I tried it with Arch on Openbox, and also do not see this behaviour (the dialog does open up at the last size, but I can shrink it back to the minimum by dragging the corner).

[John Beard (john-j-beard)]

Tried also with an old 5.0.1 and GTK+2.24 on Arch Openbox. So both these versions work on Arch, in i3 and Openbox:

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Application: pcbnew
Version: (5.0.1-16-g272b477e9), debug build
Libraries:
    wxWidgets 3.0.4
    libcurl/7.63.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1a zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.1.0 libpsl/0.20.2 (+libidn2/2.1.0) libssh2/1.8.0 nghttp2/1.36.0
Platform: Linux 4.20.6-arch1-1-ARCH x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
Build Info:
    wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 2.24
    Boost: 1.68.0
    OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
    Curl: 7.62.0
    Compiler: GCC 8.2.1 with C++ ABI 1013

Build settings:
    USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
    USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
    BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
    KICAD_SPICE=ON

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Application: pcbnew
Version: (5.1.0-rc1-29-gbed066771-dirty), debug build
Libraries:
    wxWidgets 3.0.4
    libcurl/7.63.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1a zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.1.0 libpsl/0.20.2 (+libidn2/2.1.0) libssh2/1.8.0 nghttp2/1.36.0
Platform: Linux 4.20.6-arch1-1-ARCH x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
Build Info:
    wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 3.24
    Boost: 1.69.0
    OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
    Curl: 7.63.0
    Compiler: GCC 8.2.1 with C++ ABI 1013
Build settings:
    USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
    USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
    BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
    KICAD_SPICE=ON

[Hildo Guillardi Júnior (hildogjr)]

I remember that v4 in Legancy mode had this problem with the selection disambiguation window on Ubuntu 16.04. I tried now and I couldn't reproduce.

Application: pcbnew
Version: 5.1.0-rc1-unknown-c0a86d7~66~ubuntu16.04.1, release build
Libraries:
    wxWidgets 3.0.2
    libcurl/7.47.0 OpenSSL/1.0.2g zlib/1.2.8 libidn/1.32 librtmp/2.3
Platform: Linux 4.15.0-45-generic x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
Build Info:
    wxWidgets: 3.0.2 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 2.24
    Boost: 1.58.0
    OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.8.0
    Curl: 7.47.0
    Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 with C++ ABI 1009
Build settings:
    USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
    USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
    BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
    KICAD_SPICE=ON

[Anton Savov (antto)]

i tested with LXDE (openbox) and wx3.0.4 gtk2 from Debian backports, kicad 5.0.2, the bug is still there
changing the window manager to xfwm4 and the bug doesn't happen