On Sep 14, 2010, at 10:17 AM, Vesa Solonen wrote: > On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Martijn Kuipers wrote: > >> On Sep 13, 2010, at 18:42 PM, Jerry Jacobs wrote: > >>> Also there are still some odd things when using Kicad on OSX for example >>> the viewport is damn slow of PCBnew. But it is usable and functional. > >> This is probably due to the fact that the cocoa-port of wxWidgets is not yet >> complete. Will try to look into it, time permitting. > > Before barking at the wxWidgets, it may be of value to look at KiCad drawing > code. I did not want to bark at all. Whenever I need some wxWidgets for OSX I am told by the wxWidgets-lists that the OSX (cocoa) is not complete and not optimal. Sorry if it sounded like I am blaming wxWidgets only, not my intention at all.
> The drawing is damn slow on every platform that does compositing and > buffering properly -> OSX and Win upwards Vista. On linux it depends on > everything, but proper buffering is not ususally done and the flicker is very > annoying. Some performance improvements are on the way from Brian F. Biduloc > and kicad-gal from Thorsten. I have no experience or skills to implement > these, but from the tests it's evident there is some fondamental mismatch > between KiCad drawing code and current graphics technologies. With new vector > font the drawing problems begin to show even on schematics with lots of text > (vertices). Thanks for the explanation. > > My main platform is Linux, so there may be some pessimism regarding graphics > ;) For example Freeroute on IcedTea runs really fine as long as the window is > minimized, but saturates X as soon as something needs to be drawn. Sun Java > works _very_ much better, even though it probably does all drawing on the cpu. > > If you find something that makes KiCad on OSX work well, it probably helps on > every platform. I thought it was just an OSX problem, guess not. Cheers, Martijn _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
