Is this ready to be committed or does it need additional testing by other OSX users?
On 1/1/2016 5:06 PM, Bernhard Stegmaier wrote: > Hi, > > I played around on how to more efficiently draw the grid on OS X in legacy > canvases. > Attached is a patch with the best improvement I found (without radical > changes). > > > > > > However, I am not really sure about it… on one of my machines it definitely > is an improvement, on the other it doesn’t make a big difference. > > So, could some of the OS X folks still compiling their own versions maybe > test it and give feedback? > To get activated, you need to configure with “-DUSE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=ON”, > because it uses wxGraphicContext (which probably was not directly used on OS > X before, but shouldn’t be any problem). > > I also have uploaded my build for anyone who might want to try without > compiling to > https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bxxu6Mh3pHubcTBjeXdaemNSblE > It should run on 10.10 and above (but probably not on older processors). > And no, package doesn’t look like official builds, there is no support, no > scripting, no github plugin, … :) > > It would especially be great if some of the users who recently complained > about “borderline usability” could check to see if it makes things better for > them. > > > Regards, > Bernhard > > PS: > A really huge improvement (much more than the one above) would be to draw > grid as lines. > However, this needs major tweaking of grid colors/transparency. > If you just draw lines like it is now you more or less only will see grid > lines everywhere. > > PPS: > I also tried drawing one row into a memory bitmap and blitting that one for > each grid row (maybe a bit like the “optimized version” still mentioned in > the comment in the code). > This is slower than directly drawing the grid... > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
