[NOT A BUG] ESC does not deactivate selection tool

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To reproduce expected behavior:

  1. Switch the selected component to another component
  2. Click “camera lasso”
  3. Select some cameras
  4. Press ESC

Camera lasso is deactivated.

To reproduce bad behavior:

  1. Switch the selected component to another component
  2. Click “camera lasso”
  3. Press ESC

Camera lasso is NOT deactivated.

Note: this is not a problem for Camera rect.

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It is not a bug, since in our application the ESC key is used to minimize, not to abort or cancel a process.

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Hi Aaron Curtis,

if you need to DEACTIVATE a selection or so, just right-click and the selection is removed.

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Not a bug? It’s certainly an inconsistency in the user interface.

Lucia, sounds like you have some settings in your operating system which intercept the ESC keypress before it gets to RC.

Wishgranter, nice to know about the right-clicking thing. Interesting that this bug does not affect right clicking.

I’ll edit the original post to be more specific: the bug only occurs directly after switching a component. If you show it to your UI programmer he / she will certainly recognize it as a bug, although it’s a minor one.

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Ah, my bad. Here’s what’s happening. The ESC keypress does not go to the 3D view pane because the 2Ds pane is still activated (blue border).

The reason that right-clicking works and ESC doesn’t in this case is that when you click it activates the 3D view pane. Otherwise, ESC and right clicking are identical.