pcbnew polygon tool draws polygon different than the preview

[Mark Roszko]

See https://gfycat.com/MixedAdoredGonolek for a capture.

Basically, make 3 points of a rectangle, then for the fouth one, attmpt to put it lower. The suggested box looks ok because i do want to make the weird polygon. So the 4th click puts the 4th vertex where I want it. But the 5th click closes the rectangle instead of placing a 5th vertex like the preview implies it would.

[Maciej Suminski (orsonmmz)]

Mark,

Please state the KiCad version. I have an impression that it might be an old one, as the polygon preview in the current master uses different colors for the polygon area that has been already accepted and the proposed one.

[John Beard (john-j-beard)]

I think this is caused by calling SetFinished on a POLYGON_GEOM_MANAGER doesn't add the leader points before completion.

The attached patch adds all but the first leader point to the polygon (the first point is the last locked point) before completing.

Video of completing a zone with outstanding leader points after the patch: https://imgur.com/a/0sXKEbu

[John Beard (john-j-beard)]

I see this too on:

Application: pcbnew
Version: (5.0.0-rc3-dev-6-g101b68b61), debug build
Libraries:
    wxWidgets 3.0.4
    libcurl/7.60.0 OpenSSL/1.1.0h zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.0.5 libpsl/0.20.2 (+libidn2/2.0.4) nghttp2/1.31.1
Platform: Linux 4.17.2-1-ARCH x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
Build Info:
    wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 2.24
    Boost: 1.67.0
    OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
    Curl: 7.60.0
    Compiler: GCC 8.1.1 with C++ ABI 1012

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

[Mark Roszko (mark-roszko)]

I stopped seeing it once I updated a bit (was running a older version due to testing)...Its no longer any angle snapping that it was doing before which eliminated the leader point issue....but I don't know if thats a setting or not.

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