Skip to content

unify navigation with keyboard inside properties panel / add support for changing between properties panels entries with TAB / TAB + SHIFT

Description

It would be extremely useful if it would be possible to switch between the different properties panel entries with TAB (forward / down) and TAB + SHIFT (backward / up).

image

Steps to reproduce

Currently I am correcting/adapting manually the position of many footprints in pcbnew.

For this I first click into the "Position X" field, enter the desired value via keyboard and would then as next field like to change the "Position X". Here it would be convenient if I could change to this field with TAB. Currently there seems to be no way around than clicking to the "Position Y" field with the mouse.

Doing this one or two times is ok, but I have to move a couple of hundred components due to a not yet 100% working import from another Layout tool to kicad..

KiCad Version

Application: KiCad PCB Editor x64 on x64

Version: 8.0.0-rc2-525-g2afe4db945, release build

Libraries:
	wxWidgets 3.2.4
	FreeType 2.12.1
	HarfBuzz 8.3.0
	FontConfig 2.14.2
	libcurl/8.5.0-DEV Schannel zlib/1.3

Platform: Windows 10 (build 19045), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW

Build Info:
	Date: Feb 12 2024 06:18:26
	wxWidgets: 3.2.4 (wchar_t,wx containers)
	Boost: 1.83.0
	OCC: 7.7.1
	Curl: 8.5.0-DEV
	ngspice: 42
	Compiler: Visual C++ 1936 without C++ ABI

Build settings: