Footprint Editor: Invisible texts can be clicked

[dhaillant]

Hello,

I’m pretty sure that, in V5, when a text was tagged invisible, it was impossible then to click on it and to select it, both in Footprint Editor and in PCBnew.

However, in V6.0.2, I found that invisible tagged Front Silkscreen text (for instance, Value field) is still selectable by left click.

This is confusing because, you left-click on a visible element, and “something else” is selected instead.

At first I thought that my footprint was corrupted in some way, but I figured out later that I was clicking on the invisible Value text field…

Is this expected?
Is it a bug that I should report?

Thank you very much!

[straubm]

Basically all items that are displayed can be selected (unless filtered). In the Appearance Manager Objects tab you can select whether hidden (invisible) text should be displayed, or not.

[dhaillant]

What’s confusing is that “Hidden Text” is unchecked, and therefore, the text field is hidden, but it remains clickable/selectable nonetheless…

[straubm]

If you select a footprint, all fields, including those invisible, are highlighted. They are not ‘selected’, the footprint is.

[mf_ibfeew]

I can confirm the reported behaviour from @dhaillant .

Hidden text, even if unchecked in the appearance manager (and therefore not displayed on the canvas) , can be selected and edited. I think its a bug.

occurs in v6.02. and also in the development version v6.99

[dhaillant]

Thank you, I’ll report the bug.

[dhaillant]

Issue created: Footprint Editor: Invisible texts can be clicked (#11111) · Issues · KiCad / KiCad Source Code / kicad · GitLab
(Nice issue number by the way )