Hierarchical Sheet Pin names not highlighted by default

[Evan Shultz]

In 5.0.0, the "name" field is highlighted by default when viewing the properties of a named element. The "name" would be the ref des of a component (the number part), the name of a net label, etc.

However, hierarchical sheet pins do not get anything highlighted in the dialog. The Sheet Pin Properties dialog should have the Name field highlighted to match the behavior elsewhere in v5.Application: kicad
Version: (5.0.0), release build
Libraries:
    wxWidgets 3.0.3
    libcurl/7.54.1 OpenSSL/1.0.2l zlib/1.2.11 libssh2/1.8.0 nghttp2/1.23.1 librtmp/2.3
Platform: Windows 8 (build 9200), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW
Build Info:
    wxWidgets: 3.0.3 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
    Boost: 1.60.0
    OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.8.0
    Curl: 7.54.1
    Compiler: GCC 7.1.0 with C++ ABI 1011

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

[Jeff Young (jeyjey)]

Already fixed in 5.1.

[Evan Shultz (evan-shultz)]

This still happens with a fairly recent nightly.

I've made a short video to illustrate what's going on. On a symbol the "Reference" text box is highlighted and typing clears out the old text and replaces it. The same with a label and it's "Label" text box.

But with a Sheet Pin, no text in the "Name" text box is highlighted and the cursor is at the left of the text box. So typing instead adds the characters to the beginning of the text.

Application: kicad
Version: (6.0.0-rc1-dev-1521-g81a0ab4d7), 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

[KiCad Janitor (kicad-janitor)]

Fixed in revision 7789ec4bf1959f3822c86ef959bb496e561a7c95
https://git.launchpad.net/kicad/patch/?id=7789ec4bf1959f3822c86ef959bb496e561a7c95

[Wayne Stambaugh (stambaughw)]

This should be fixed in 5.1.0-rc1-5-g7789ec4bf. Please let me know if you are still having issues.

[Evan Shultz (evan-shultz)]

Yep. Sheet Pin names are now highlighted when the dialog is invoked. Thanks Wayne!