On 07/14/2010 01:29 AM, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jul 2010, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: > >> The meaning of your last sentence is not clear to me. Can you clarify >> and elaborate please what you mean. > > I find very useful the artifacts (mostly dots at the edge) of the 'old' > position to align the 'new' position. I.e. keeping drawn in 'grayed' > mode the original object during moving.
This seems like it could be worth the (potentially substantial) extra work. I think it would be a useful feature. If the new GAL library is deemed a worthy future path of travel, then I wonder if the XOR technique currently used for object dragging operations would go away. And we would simply use a redraw technique, but my assumption could be wrong. And I have wondered about how we could do the interactive rubber-banding box drawing without XOR, same way Torsten? Again, I do think the feature you Lorenzo highlight would be slick, and would actually be a little more intentional than some of the artifacts we have now. Those current artifacts are more like litter left behind after a picnic :), but seem to have been found useful. > > And talking about opengl performance, try to get something acceptable > with the OS ATI drivers, since the proprietary ones have the bad habit > of mark 'legacy' all that is more than 2yo... > > My newest machine is a dual core with a radeon 200 mobility (about 3yo) > and the only driver available is the open source one! And it's renowned > for sucking at opengl :P > > That's on of the reasons for being against using opengl if it isn't > strictly necessary... arent't GDI/Xgc operations already accelerated > anyway? > I too still have computers that eventually stopped working well for me as software advanced. And my 8 month old android capable cell phone is already obsolete... but somehow I don't think any of the guys writing software for it really care, since their time is valuable. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
