eeschema: Choose Footprint window going under its parent window

Bug #1835828 reported by Andrzej Pyszniak
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
KiCad
Fix Committed
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

Application: kicad
Version: (5.1.2-1)-1, release build
Libraries:
    wxWidgets 3.0.4
    libcurl/7.54.0 LibreSSL/2.0.20 zlib/1.2.11 nghttp2/1.24.0
Platform: Mac OS X (Darwin 17.7.0 x86_64), 64 bit, Little endian, wxMac
Build Info:
    wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (UTF-8,STL containers,compatible with 2.8)
    Boost: 1.69.0
    OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
    Curl: 7.51.0
    Compiler: Clang 8.0.0 with C++ ABI 1002

Build settings:
    USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=ON
    USE_WX_OVERLAY=ON
    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

After opening Symbol Properties -> (Footprint) -> Footprint Library Browser -> (Select Footprint To Browse) -> Choose Footprint, and then making some other window to be on top (eg. by switching desktops or clicking on the desktop or elsewhere), when going back to eeschema, the Choose Footprint Window gets hidden under the Footprint Library Browser and cannot be brought to front. See attached clip.

Revision history for this message
Andrzej Pyszniak (newmanx) wrote :
tags: added: macos
Jeff Young (jeyjey)
Changed in kicad:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
Changed in kicad:
milestone: none → 5.1.3
Changed in kicad:
milestone: 5.1.3 → 5.1.4
Changed in kicad:
milestone: 5.1.4 → 5.1.5
Revision history for this message
Jeff Young (jeyjey) wrote :

In 6.0 the Footprint Browser supports filtering so there no longer is a second-level Choose Footprint option.

This bug is too risky to fix in 5.1.

Changed in kicad:
milestone: 5.1.5 → 6.0.0-rc1
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
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