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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@...>]

Magnus Beischer wrote:
> --- In kicad-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Ing. Gabriele Oberhammer"
> <gabriele@...> wrote:
>
> > Thanks, I hope I'll find a way to get a faster filling than now and a
> > better visual result :-)
>
> Hi Gabriele, 
>
> I have another approach that might be worth looking at. One question
> we might ask is:
> - What can be done in the background (not in the GUI thread) that
> helps the user to accept long processing times?
>
> The idea is that as a user I might accept long processing times if for
> instance I can keep working immediately after I have started a zone
> fill (in a restricted way). For my own work I'd be happy if I could
> start to fill a zone, move to the next zone and start to fill that
> one, change layer and start to fill zones on that layer, take a break
> from work and come back and see that all the zones are filled in a
> beautifull way.

A can of worms. Could be done, but harder to support over the long haul 
than it is worth. This effort should be spent optimizing the objective, 
not hiding its ugliness.

Dick

> Another idea is that as a user I might want to control in my settings
> if I want "fast zone generation", "beautiful zone edges" or "optimize
> for redrawing speed". 
>
> // Magnus