EEschema - wire tool exits after a mouse click

Bug #1825871 reported by Art
6
This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
KiCad
Fix Committed
Low
Jeff Young

Bug Description

If you activate place wire tool and draw the first wire, the tool goes back to the default (select item) mode. So in order to draw multiple wires you have to keep clicking on Place Wire button (or keep using Place Wire shortcut) after each wire is placed.

Application: kicad
Version: (5.1.0-327-ga461eae8b), 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 8 (build 9200), 64-bit edition, 64 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 8.2.0 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=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

Tags: eeschema
Changed in kicad:
importance: Undecided → Low
milestone: none → 6.0.0-rc1
status: New → Triaged
Jeff Young (jeyjey)
Changed in kicad:
assignee: nobody → Jeff Young (jeyjey)
Jeff Young (jeyjey)
Changed in kicad:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Paul Hansel (paulhansel) wrote :

@jeyjey,

Seems like this fix might have had unintended side effects: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1826086

tags: added: eeschema
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