On 04/12/17 18:59, Jon Evans wrote: > I've got some experience with Qt and would be willing to help out with > investigating this at some point. My only experience with wx is with > kicad, and it seems to have many more problems than Qt... > On the other hand, I disagree with the suggestion that Electron would be > a good path for KiCad, every single Electron program I have used has > terrible performance.
What I meant is using electron exclusively for the GUI (same as Qt), to ease the design of a modern and customizable interface. All internals, canvases, tools would be still C++. AFAIK most Electron apps are entirely written in HTML/JS, which may be the reason for sluggish performance. Anyway, we'll have to stick to wx for the reasonable future. Tom > > -Jon > > On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 12:55 PM, Chris Pavlina <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 05:53:12PM +0000, Tomasz Wlostowski wrote: > > On 04/12/17 18:48, Chris Pavlina wrote: > > > Hey, just a comment because I see people are wrestling with > > > COMPONENT_TREE performance as I did when writing it. TEST ON MACOS. > The > > > performance of the widget there has a really different profile from on > > > other systems. I had to do things in really unobvious ways to make it > > > perform reasonably there. > > > > > > > I've noticed spending more and more time fixing wxWidgets bugs instead > > of Kicad bugs. Maybe we should have a serious look at Qt or Electron > > (Webkit/JS-based UI) as a possible future alternative for wx... > > YES. I try not to bring it up too much because I know the lead devs > aren't fond of the idea of changing the GUI toolkit, but I strongly > believe we could benefit from that. Obviously it can't really happen > until we ditch wxDC. > > > > > Tom (fighting with wxWidgets thread safety under Windows...) > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > Post to : [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > <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
