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Selections with Groups do not work with "Edit Text & Graphics Properties & filter "Only include selected items"

Description

When a group is part of a selection (or only the group is selected), then Pcb Editor / Edit / Edit Text and Graphics Properties with: Filter / Only include Selected items does not modify the objects in the group.

Steps to reproduce

  1. Open attached project in Pcb Editor.

  2. Select Top part of the PCB (R10 and the group with R2 and R3).

  3. Pcb Editor / Edit / Edit Text and Graphic Properties

  4. Use for example these settings: image

  5. The texts in the group are not modified, while they are part of the selection. image

Test project with default text size: 2021-09-04_asdf_Group_Editing_Bug_5.99.zip

This was first mentioned by user "steves" on the user forum, and verified by me in the KiCad version below. I made this bug report on request of JeffYoung

https://forum.kicad.info/t/5-99-group-editing/30860

The original post was about setting the "invisible" attribute for text.

Pcb Editor / Edit / Edit Track & Via Properties has similar behavior. In the screenshot below I tried to use it to set all tracks connected to R10, R2 and R3 to B.Cu, but the items in the group are ignored. (R11 was not part of the selection and used as reference. It should not, and is not changed). image

KiCad Version

Application: KiCad PCB Editor

Version: 5.99.0-unknown-5e8b23af64~131~ubuntu20.04.1, release build

Libraries:
	wxWidgets 3.0.4

Platform: Linux 5.4.0-81-generic x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK, xfce, x11

	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_USE_OCC=ON
	KICAD_SPICE=ON
Edited by paulvdhoeven