Active point of hidden pins is always shown

Bug #1820175 reported by Kerusey Karyu
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
KiCad
Expired
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Bug Description

Maybe this is by desing, but the active points of hidden pins are visible. The surrouding circles are always drawn.

Application: kicad
Version: (5.1.0)-1, 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

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Kerusey Karyu (keruseykaryu-deactivatedaccount) wrote :
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Wayne Stambaugh (stambaughw) wrote :

Are those pins connected to anything? If not, then they should show the pin as unconnected even if they are not visible.

Changed in kicad:
status: New → Incomplete
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Kerusey Karyu (keruseykaryu-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Yes. Those pins are hidden power pins "connected" to the VCC and GND power ports respectively. Of course there are not regular wires.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for KiCad because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in kicad:
status: Incomplete → Expired
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