eeschema drag has issues with selected wire connected to unselected symbol

[Martin Thomas]

Move block via the TAB Key isn't working any more. I use version:

Application: kicad
Version: (5.1.0-473-g6120c6558), debug build
Libraries:
    wxWidgets 3.0.2
    libcurl/7.52.1 GnuTLS/3.5.8 zlib/1.2.8 libidn2/0.16 libpsl/0.17.0 (+libidn2/0.16) libssh2/1.7.0 nghttp2/1.18.1 librtmp/2.3
Platform: Linux 4.19.36-mt 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: 1.62.0
    OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.8.0
    Curl: 7.52.1
    Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 with C++ ABI 1010

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=OFF
    BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
    KICAD_SPICE=OFF

[Jeff Young (jeyjey)]

There is no longer any need for two commands (drag block & drag item). Drag does a drag of whatever is selected. By default this is wired up to the ‘G’ key.

If you’re used to the <tab> key, you can change the hotkey for Drag to <tab>.

[Martin Thomas (mtlaunchpad)]

OK this is a good approach but it does not work as good as the "move block" command yes. I suppose the work isn't finished on that feature?

Because when I use g it behaves like move in some cases and I loos the connection.

[Jeff Young (jeyjey)]

Well, it's "supposed" to be done. ;)

When do you lose connections? (Posting a simple example might help if it's not easy to describe.)

[Martin Thomas (mtlaunchpad)]

Here you are. I pressed "g" but it was more like a move.

[Jeff Young (jeyjey)]

He he... it's because of the new greedy selection model (select from right-to-left). A wire that's entirely selected doesn't have an end anchored.

Make the same selection from left-to-right (the old, stingy selection model) and it should do what you're expecting.

[Martin Thomas (mtlaunchpad)]

I still have an issue. It is not possible to grab the end and get it to the GND below by pressing "g".

[Jeff Young (jeyjey)]

The problem in comment #6 is being tracked here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1827872

[KiCad Janitor (kicad-janitor)]

Fixed in revision cf046e0548a49d358354abadd3a756708688549b
https://git.launchpad.net/kicad/patch/?id=cf046e0548a49d358354abadd3a756708688549b

[Hildo Guillardi Júnior (hildogjr)]

I just reported a bug marked as duplicated of this lp:1828476
Since my reported version is 2 days newer than the fix commited, I am marking this as "in progress".

[Michael Kavanagh (michaelkavanagh)]

@Hildo, please read Jeff's explanation in #1. The tab behaviour has been removed from Eeschema with the move to the modern toolset to align it with Pcbnew.

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