I can take a look at it early this week, but don't feel like you have to hold off for me.
On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 3:34 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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