I just built against master (libmarblewidget.so.0.18.3). Same issue exists for 
geoProjected ellipses.   :(

For reference, geoProjected ellipses draw much better with 
libmarblewidget.so.0.15.0

Josh

On 07/10/2014 07:03 AM, Josh wrote:
> Hi Dennis,
>
> The example, as is, does not produce this issue. If the ellipse is drawn with 
> isGeoProjected=true, then the issue is apparent.
>
> Attached code only changes the call to drawEllipse, to draw a geoprojected 
> circle at the example's home location:
>
>     painter->drawEllipse(home, (60.0/1243.76), (60.0/1853.17), true);
>
> Image shows the issue. Zooming in and out should show the problem.
>
> If you don't see it in master, I'll try building against that.
>
> Thanks for looking!
>
> Josh
>
> On 07/05/2014 03:49 AM, Dennis Nienhüser wrote:
>> 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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