Eeschema : Mouse cursor reverts to pointer after middle mouse drag.

[Chris Goddard]

In Eeschema, when any of the tools are selected, place wire, place symbol etc, the mouse cursor changes to a pencil from an arrow. If the canvas is then dragged with the middle mouse button, on release the mouse cursor reverts to the arrow even though the placement tool is still selected. It should still be the pencil until the placement tool is cancelled.

I've been caught a few times thinking I no longer have the relevant placement tool selected.

Kicad V5.1.2 Win10 64bit

[Michael Kavanagh (michaelkavanagh)]

Please copy the full version information from About KiCad -> Copy Version Info.

[Chris Goddard (chriy)]

Application: kicad
Version: (5.1.2)-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

[Michael Kavanagh (michaelkavanagh)]

I’ll milestone for 6.0.0-rc1 as this will probably be fixed already in eemodern.

[Wayne Stambaugh (stambaughw)]

This affects 5.1.2. It should be fixed in the 5.1 branch even though eeschema in the master branch is well under way to modern toolset completion and may have already been fixed. The 5.1 branch will continue to get bug fixes until 6.0.0 is released.

[Chris Goddard (chriy)]

Nice. Thanks.

[Wayne Stambaugh (stambaughw)]

It looks like the KiCad janitor missed this.