Comment 5 for bug 1847318

That makes sense. This is much more noticeable in the newer version than
in the one I initially reported it on.

*Drew Van Zandt*

On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 5:31 AM Ian McInerney <email address hidden>
wrote:

> I was thinking about this some more, and I think it is related to delays
> in the processing of events that we do. Currently, the selection actions
> for move-like commands do not use the position where the key was pressed
> but instead the position of the mouse when the actual selection
> functions are called. Unfortuantely, there are quite a few functions
> between the user pressing a key and these selection functions, and also
> there may be other events being processed that delay the key press event
> as well.
>
> The best fix for this will be to modify the way we handle position
> information in these functions and use the position where the user
> pressed the key. This might be a fairly invasive change, so it might not
> make it back into 5.1. If it isn't as invasive as I think, then it could
> be backported after some testing in master (anything dealing with the
> tool framework seems to have some risk of introducing new problems).
>
> ** Changed in: kicad
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Ian McInerney (imcinerney)
>
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>
> Title:
> Delay between keyboard shortcut and mouse location capture
>
> Status in KiCad:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Put mouse above component.
> Press M to Move component, immediately move mouse above a different
> component. Incorrect component (or wire, or....) is moved.
>
> Application: kicad
> Version: (5.0.2)-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_WXPYTHON=ON
> KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
> BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
> KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
> KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
> KICAD_SPICE=ON
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