Wish: Pcbnew - Cancelling Move or duplicate should not lose selection

Bug #1825975 reported by Laurent Haas
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This bug affects 4 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
KiCad
Fix Committed
Wishlist
Jeff Young

Bug Description

When a "direct action" like Move or Duplicate is cancelled by using Esc, the selection of items - sometimes tedious to perform if it involves a filter etc. - should remain.

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Laurent Haas (efcis) wrote :

Application: kicad
Version: (5.1.1)-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 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

summary: - Wish: Pcbnew - Cancelling Move or should not lose selection
+ Wish: Pcbnew - Cancelling Move or duplicate should not lose selection
Changed in kicad:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Triaged
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energijapanikoj@gmail.com (energijapanikoj) wrote :

I am voting up also. This is very annoying productivity killer.

Jeff Young (jeyjey)
Changed in kicad:
milestone: none → 6.0.0-rc1
assignee: nobody → Jeff Young (jeyjey)
status: Triaged → In Progress
Jeff Young (jeyjey)
Changed in kicad:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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