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[Marius Kintel <kintel@...>]

Hi again,

I've been digging deeper into this issue and think I found the cause 
of my problems with invalid graphic contexts:
The Mac port of wxWidgets does not support having nested contexts 
(wxDC instances).
In short, this means that the following is illegal and any draw 
command will fail:
{
wxClientDC dc(this);
wxClientDC dc2(this);
<- draw something here;
}

One example of where this is done in KiCad (this seems to be done all 
over the place):
WinEDA_PcbFrame::Files_io()
{
[...]
wxClientDC dc( DrawPanel );

This function eventually calls 
WinEDA_BasePcbFrame::Compile_Ratsnest( wxDC* DC ...), which again 
calls WinEDA_MsgPanel::EraseMsgBox(), which creates a new context:
wxClientDC dc( this );
[...]
}

This one is easy to fix, but there are more, to an unknown extent.

In general (I'm not familiar with wxWidgets), it's considered nice to 
only draw stuff on the paint event itself. I guess this school of 
thought is not followed in KiCad, either accidentally or for some 
reason.

I'm wondering if anyone has any insights, ideas etc. about what to do 
about this?

Regards,

~/= Marius

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