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["Torsten Hüter" <torstenhtr@...>]

Hi Marco,

Yes, you're right, the additional cost is another library to maintain. However the bonus is, that it helps to accelerate the drawing speed - exactly because it was optimized for speed. AFAIK even antialiasing should work. It's well supported for Linux / Windows (mingw) / Mac OS X.
I could imagine that for KiCad is a abstract graphics layer is created and different rendering engines are used as plugins (like for instance some emulators use).
I'll play with it at the weekend.

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Bye..
Torsten

> The library looks nice but i think the overhead of mantain this library in
> kicad and the time spent to adapt the code will be higher than the
> benefits.
> Wxwindows already does all those things using native platform code, the
> problem we are talking about is to change how the application uses those API
> and prepare the code to use newer API. 
> 
> The application for example manages the ZOOM itself and probably could
> rely on what is already exposed by the library or for example we could use
> graphic calls with group primitives instead with single primitives.
> 
> --
> Marco
> 

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