Object selection in eeschema is broken after placing junction, symbol, power symbol, label, or text, but not bus or wire

[Paul Hansel]

Placing a junction, symbol, power symbol, label, or text item on any schematic breaks the object select functionality (including single select, box select and move (with m or g) functions). The only way to temporarily fix this error is to leave the schematic or restart eeschema.

Application: kicad
Version: (5.1.0-rc1-511-g77fe7d8), 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 4.4.0-145-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=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

[Rene Poeschl (poeschlr)]

Are you really still at release canditate 1? That is not really a release but a pre release. Update to the latest real release and report back if you still expirience the same problems. (depending on your operating system this will be either 5.1.0 or 5.1.1 as the later might not yet be available on all platforms)

[Jeff Young (jeyjey)]

@Paul, is that a nightly build or one you did yourself? In either case, how recent is the code?

(The version number should tell me the git commit it was built from, but my git doesn't recognize '77fe7d8' as a commit hash.)

[Jeff Young (jeyjey)]

(Note that I can't reproduce it, whereas I had no trouble with your other reports, so I think your code is a bit out-of-date.)

[Paul Hansel (paulhansel)]

@jeyjey,

I have been building the full package from master each time. The specific commit referenced above is from yesterday: https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-source-mirror/commit/77fe7d8325696fe6f5f86dc11b6630c7972f51ab

I can confirm that the issue is absent when I checkout 5.1.1 (d505fd2b). Is there any reason I should continue building+testing the unstable branch?

[Paul Hansel (paulhansel)]

Also, thank you for pointing this out! I was unaware of the distinction between 5.1.0 and 5.1.1.

[Jeff Young (jeyjey)]

@Paul,

It's useful for us to get bug reports from the latest and greatest, but master is undergoing pretty heavy development right now so if you're actually trying to get work done then 5.1.1 is a better option.

Cheers,
Jeff.

[Nick Østergaard (nickoe)]

I think I see exactly the same on linux with master:

Application: kicad
Version: (5.1.0-322-g223e24f42), debug build
Libraries:
    wxWidgets 3.0.4
    libcurl/7.64.1 OpenSSL/1.1.1b zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.1.1 libpsl/0.20.2 (+libidn2/2.1.1) libssh2/1.8.1 nghttp2/1.36.0
Platform: Linux 5.0.8-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 Technology: 7.3.0
    Curl: 7.64.1
    Compiler: GCC 8.2.1 with C++ ABI 1013

Build settings:
    USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
    USE_WX_OVERLAY=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=OFF
    BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCE=OFF
    KICAD_USE_OCC=ON
    KICAD_SPICE=ON

[Nick Østergaard (nickoe)]

What I observe is that I can hold down the m key and it will move the symbol around on the screen following my mouse pointer. That do feel slightly laggy. But the reason that it seems to move it is that pressing m actually seems to update the canvas. Follow this:

1. add a symbol and place it
2. try to move a symbol with m key (it does not look like the symbol is picked up, but it is)
3. move the mouse pointer
4. hit m key (the symbol move to the mouse pointer location)
5. hit enter to place it

This happens with both the opengl and cairo canvas.

[Nick Østergaard (nickoe)]

The same happens when moving symbol refdefs and value fields.

[Nick Østergaard (nickoe)]

This started to happen with the following commit.

commit 32c86a4ca44f62c89820e91cb80f33f1f1871b44
Date: Mon Apr 15 15:34:58 2019 +0100

    Move place symbol to modern toolset.

[Paul Hansel (paulhansel)]

@jeyjey,

The latest few patches seem to have fixed the selection tool! There is a minor rendering issue while the selection is active - labels and text move the wrong way until the selection is released. I've opened a new bug here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1825853