What happened to CTRL + Left Click highlight feature?

[MuratUrsavas]

Hi,

As I’m working with pcbnew from nightlies, I’ve seen an odd behavior. Normally we were using ‘CTRL + Left Click’ as trace highlight. But right now with nightlies it works like ‘SHIFT + LMB’. Is this on purpose or some kind of bug?

Also couldn’t find a new highlighting method from the menus or obvious shortcuts I’ve tried.

Edit Note:
OK, found the selection method which is left click select and then press ‘u’ (or right click on the selection and then click on the ‘Selection/Expand Selection’ from the context menu.

But still it does not highlight the the whole trace.

Application: Pcbnew

Version: 5.99.0-unknown-2932fe1e6~106~ubuntu20.04.1, release build

Libraries:
	wxWidgets 3.0.4
	libcurl/7.68.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1f zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.7 libidn2/2.2.0 libpsl/0.21.0 (+libidn2/2.2.0) libssh/0.9.3/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.40.0 librtmp/2.3

Platform: Linux 5.4.0-54-generic x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK, ubuntu, x11

Build Info:
	Date: Nov 22 2020 10:17:08
	wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 3.24
	Boost: 1.71.0
	OCC: 7.3.0
	Curl: 7.68.0
	ngspice: 31
	Compiler: GCC 9.3.0 with C++ ABI 1013

Build settings:
	KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
	KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
	KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=ON
	KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
	KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=ON
	KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
	KICAD_USE_OCC=ON
	KICAD_SPICE=ON

[eelik]

I think you are talking about net (not just trace!) highlighting which was Ctrl+LMB IIRC. It’s a tool in the right hand toolbar, the second one from top.

This was changed on purpose. Quite many shortcuts/hotkeys and keyboard/mouse combinations have been changed. Mostly to be more consistent with other software and internally. Sometimes it’s annoying, but I try to adapt.

[MuratUrsavas]

You’re right @eelik, I was talking about that feature.

I’m also in the same adapting process. I hope things wouldn’t change much at RC stage

Thank you.

[eelik]

There’s also the Nets tab in the Appearance panel, you can highlight nets from the context menu, but it works only if you find the net by name in the list.