Vesa Solonen wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
>
>
>> Your zoom patch for pcbnew makes the PCBNEW program too slow to
use when
>> I have a delay in the drawing due to a large number of zones.
>>
>
> Yes, that's very noticeable problem. Anyway the real solution is
somewhere
> else than on zoom granularity, like threading for rendering...
>
>
>> Please try out this array for pcbnew and let me know if your feelings
>> would be hurt if we used it instead. The problem again is that it
takes
>> too many steps to zoom in.
>>
>
> How about adding a 'turbo key' for zooming with larger step, like
SHIFT +
> zoom? Your zoom series is ok too, but I'd like to keep even powers
of two
> zooms along the finer steps. That would mean sqrt(2) factor. Anyway
this
> should be configurable someway as otherwise we can not please every
one :)
>
>
>> I have not tried eeschema. Drawing is faster there, but there could be
>> some advantage in making these similar.
>>
>
> Maybe less steps is a good compromise until drawing code gets
worked on.
>
>
My array seems to work. We came from powers of two. I don't know why
that is important. sqrt(2) is a fractional power of two, not a true
integral power of two. So this is an overly theoretical goal.
The user experience is what's important here. So until we find bad
*actual experiences* with the code I proposed, I think we should run
with it.
