Ctrl-number not allowed in Hotkey Editor on Windows

[Morgan Feldon]

The Hotkey Editor in PCBNew on KiCad 5.0 release version running on Windows 10 will not accept certain characters with the Ctrl modifier. The following keys cannot be assigned in the Hotkey Editor: Ctrl-0, Ctrl-1, Ctrl-2 through Ctrl-9, Ctrl-`, Ctrl-., Ctrl-\, etc.. They can be assigned only through exporting the hotkey file and editing it manually and then importing the changed file.

[Wayne Stambaugh (stambaughw)]

Please include your KiCad version information. I believe this issue is only on certain platforms and has already been reported.

[Morgan Feldon (feldon30)]

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

[Morgan Feldon (feldon30)]

A search of the bug tracker for "hotkey windows" did not yield a similar report.

[Seth Hillbrand (sethh)]

Anyone on MSW able to recreate this behavior?

[Morgan Feldon (feldon30)]

This persists in KiCad 5.0.2 release on Windows 10. For now, exporting, editing, and importing the hotkeys file is a workaround.

[Wayne Stambaugh (stambaughw)]

I confirmed this on windows 10 with the development branch as well. If I remember correctly, this is as wxWidgets issue due to the menu accelerator handling on windows. Although it may have been corrected in the 3.1 branch.

Application: kicad
Version: (6.0.0-rc1-dev-1455-g4b7ef22ec), release build
Libraries:
    wxWidgets 3.0.4
    libcurl/7.63.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1a (WinSSL) zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.7 libidn2/2.0.5 libpsl/0.20.2 (+libidn2/2.0.5) nghttp2/1.35.1
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: 1.69.0
    OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
    Curl: 7.63.0
    Compiler: GCC 7.4.0 with C++ ABI 1011

Build settings:
    USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
    USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_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)]

KiCad bug tracker has moved to Gitlab. This report is now available here: https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/1787