Ongoing refactor of COMPONENT_TREE_SEARCH_CONTAINER into a model-view-adapter architecture is at [1] (componentchooser branch of my dev repo). The code is seriously cleaner now and significantly faster. Should be done later today.
[1] https://github.com/cpavlina/kicad/tree/componentchooser On Sat, Mar 04, 2017 at 01:38:37PM -0500, Chris Pavlina wrote: > Hi, > > Just thought I'd provide a quick update on what's going on with the > component chooser. Things have been pretty delayed - I've had more > issues than expected, and I'm trying to work around my school schedule > too - but I'm still moving along (and I have almost a full week off now, > most of which will be spent on this). > > Currently, I'm working on resolving a macOS performance issue that > causes updates to cost about 0.5s per keystroke for large library sets. > I'm looking at two possible solutions: > > - Implement my own wxDataViewModel, reimplementing most or all of > COMPONENT_TREE_SEARCH_CONTAINER in the process and making the > component tree a model/view architecture. This is very much > preferable, but I'm not 100% sure if this will give the desired > performance boost. I'll do this first as it's a useful refactoring > anyway. > > - Implement an optimizing adapter that wraps TWO_COLUMN_TREE_LIST. This > would populate the underlying list only with visible items, > intercepting "expand" events and populating the parents with their > children on demand. This is an ugly hack and I'd like not to resort > to this. > > When I'm done with this, I want to make a couple more changes before > proceeding, based on user feedback: > > - Make the component info box collapsible. > - Also display component info in a rich tooltip > - Add a resizable splitter between footprint and symbol display > > Once all of this is done, the next steps are: > > - Add footprint filtering and selection > - Add 3D preview > > Please, feel free to file bug reports even on minor UI quirks - I don't > always notice or remember them. > > -- > Chris _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
