Eeschema : Rotating and mirroring a selected block moves it

[Laurent Haas]

After selecting a block of components and using the contextual menu to rotate or mirror it, the block is moved to the position of the context menu item, and so I have to move it back with the mouse to its original position to place it. Obviously, it doesn't happen when using a shortcut.

Application: kicad
Version: (5.1.0-rc2-47-g6eb84e42f), release build
Libraries:
    wxWidgets 3.0.4
    libcurl/7.61.1 OpenSSL/1.1.1 (WinSSL) zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.6 libidn2/2.0.5 libpsl/0.20.2 (+libidn2/2.0.5) nghttp2/1.34.0
Platform: Windows 7 (build 7601, Service Pack 1), 32 bit, Little endian, wxMSW
Build Info:
    wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
    Boost: 1.68.0
    OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
    Curl: 7.61.1
    Compiler: GCC 7.3.0 with C++ ABI 1011

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=ON
    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

[Novak Tamas (novak-7)]

IMO it is not a bug, only "simple behavior". After mirror or rotate you probably will place the block, so if the starting position is "dumb" (not the center of old place of block but the actual mouse cursor position) it is not a problem. @Laurent, I think you may file a wish for a more sophisticated behavior.

[Laurent Haas (efcis)]

@Novak : I'm sorry to disagree.

1/ Not having the same behaviour between using the shortcut and the contextual menu is inconsistent.

2/ All other actions are "in place" including dragging by using Tab, or its contextual menu item, or duplicate (only by contextual menu).

[Seth Hillbrand (sethh)]

We should be able to have the contextual menu rotate action happen around the click point as opposed to the location of the menu item.

[Jeff Young (jeyjey)]

6.0 Eeschema uses the modern toolset which doesn't suffer this problem.