Hi Josh,

I wasn't able to reproduce that problem in master. Can you provide a
minimal example in the style of [0] that results in the rendering
problem on your system?

Regards,
Dennis

[0]
http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=marble.git&a=blob&h=a1aa719&f=examples%2Fcpp%2Fgeopainter%2Fmain.cpp

Am 30.06.2014 15:29, schrieb Josh Knox:
> Hi Torsten,
>
> Here's a couple screen shots that shows it clearly, side-by-side.
>
> Notice the dashed range rings and the small center red circle. These are all 
> drawn with GeoPainter::drawEllipse. They show the issue I'm seeing.
>
> Then compare with the light blue and light red circles, which are drawn from 
> predefined point sets using GeoPainter::drawPolygon. These maintian their 
> nice circular shape.
>
> All my uses of drawEllipse are affected like this, so I guess that's the 
> basic test case.
>
> Does this demonstrate the issue clear enough?
>
> Thanks for looking at this,
>
> Josh
>
>
>
> On 06/27/2014 06:05 PM, Torsten Rahn wrote:
>> Interesting, I haven't noticed this yet - although this might very well be 
>> the case. 
>> Could you provide a test case or maybe a screenshot which shows this change 
>> clearly? :)
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Torsten
>>
>> -----Original-Nachricht-----
>> Betreff: [Marble-devel] Ellipses look like polygons
>> Datum: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 21:51:41 +0200
>> Von: Josh Knox <[email protected]>
>> An: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I've been developing an application using Marble 1.5, that I built from 
>> source on Ubuntu 12.04.
>> I recently started migrating to Ubuntu 14.04 which provides packages for 
>> Marble 1.8.
>>
>> I use circles to mark various track points and areas, using 
>> GeoPainter::drawEllipse.
>>
>> With Marble 1.5, this worked quite well visually as the ellipses and circles 
>> were drawn as ellipses and circles, and were only reduced to small polygons 
>> and lines as the view was zoomed out beyond
>> a scale of 1:100000.
>>
>> With the newer version of Marble, anything drawn with drawEllipse is very 
>> polygonal, reducing to  squares and lines until I zoom in much closer. Even 
>> then, circles still have very noticeable flat edges, especially near 90 and 
>> 270 degrees.  Strangely, the upper and lower parts of the are much more 
>> "circular".
>>
>> Is there some difference between 1.5 and 1.8, when drawingellipses/circles 
>> that produces this visual
>> difference; some optimization/approximation perhaps?
>>
>> I'd like to have my circles look like circles again. Any ideas/suggestions 
>> for improving this?
>>
>> Note that I have some irregular but largely circular shapes that I draw as 
>> polygons from a set of p redefined points. These retain their roundness at 
>> all zoom levels. Maybe I could just draw all my
>> various circles as predefined polygons and keep those cached for use as 
>> needed. Would really prefer
>> that drawEllipse worked as it used to though.
>>
>> Thanks for any suggestions.
>>
>> Josh
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