On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 10:41:57AM -0400, Stefano Rossi wrote: > I am a current user of Altium, and I think that OpenGL is necessary to use > it. Either you have it and you can use the software, or you don't and tough > luck.
Until a few revision ago Direct3D (not OpenGL IIRC) was the 'recommended' Altium interface, with the fallback on GDI being deprecated. Current version may simply require shader model x (with x being more or less the windows version:P) My rant was more about intel lying on the supported primitives. For its design I agree that the OpenGL canvas requires *at least* 2.0; too bad they deprecated the logical mode, since blending is an inferior replacement for (x)oring the layers... Of course the big problem is us being poor :D we still have win2k machines running happily around (the 20GB HDD generation is something near immortal:P) > From reading the mailing lists I have understood that using wxDC over > OpenGL gives you a different function set to work with, such as the Push > and Shove not working in wxDC. Has anyone thought about abstracting the > layer on which things are drawn on? Such that you would have a KiCad > specific library and then have it draw to the system through selectable > OpenGL or Cairo. And if it cannot, why? Why PNS be not implemented in wxDC? Already is. It only need a performant-enough implementation (cairo isn't:D). Main problem is the different approach needed for a display list dirty-rectangle engine against a full redraw compositing one. > I have yet to use KiCad, but I would like too. I really got interested when > I got hold of information about plans of making eeshema, pcbnew, cvpcb and > others as plugins to a main window. Now that sounds nice. I had to work > with OrCAD for a while (1 yr) at work and I cannot express in words how > much I hate it's way of doing things all in separate programs. I actually prefer them to be separate; everyone has his own workflow... > beginners learn time but actual users time. EagleCAD is one of those that Main problem with eagle is that it costs way too much for what it does! -- Lorenzo Marcantonio Logos Srl _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
