"Clarify selection" disappears on ALT+LMB [MSW-only]

[Michal]

On 5.0.2 I still experience inconsistent behaviour on Footprint selection with LMB.
My footprints do not have the CourtYard layer defined.
This was reported previously https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1723469 and supposed to be fixed.
Now I've discovered an enhanced "Clarify selection" Menu when ALT+LMB is pressed, but the Menu disappears automatically in a fraction of second, hence cannot use it to select my Footprint.
If I press SHIFT+ALT+LMB the menu persists.

[John Beard (john-j-beard)]

I cannot reproduce in the current 5.1RC (or 5.0.1, for that matter). Could still be platform or toolkit specific.

Can you try a nightly and see if it's fixed for you? If this issue still present in nightlies, please add your version info (Help->About Kicad->Copy version info).

[Michal (mikon)]

I assume that you can't reproduce the Disappearing "Clarify selection" menu using ALT+LMB combination.
I will check in the evening on a second machine with latest nightly installed.
So far one another user on kicad.info forum confirmed the behaviour.

[Wayne Stambaugh (stambaughw)]

I believe this may be a windows only bug. I'm seeing it on my windows 10 system. I have to use Alt+Shift+LMB to get the disambiguation context menu to stay visible. The context menu disappears immediately if I use Alt+LMB.

Application: kicad
Version: (5.1.0-rc1-35-g869bdc2b3), release build
Libraries:
    wxWidgets 3.0.4
    libcurl/7.64.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1a (Schannel) zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.7 libidn2/2.1.1 libpsl/0.20.2 (+libidn2/2.1.1) nghttp2/1.36.0
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: 1.69.0
    OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
    Curl: 7.64.0
    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

[eelik (eelik)]

It seems to be Windows only, I took part in the discussion https://forum.kicad.info/t/kicad-5-0-2-pcbnew-inconsistent-footprint-selection/15179/8 and can affirm the bug on Windows 7 and Windows 10. However, I can't reproduce it on Linux (Kubuntu, KiCad with GTK3).

[Laurent Haas (efcis)]

FYI, the title indicates [WIN64] but it also happens on win32 I use.

Application: kicad
Version: (5.1.0-rc1-36-gea84020b1), 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 7 (build 7601, Service Pack 1), 32 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 7.3.0 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/1873