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[Jerry Jacobs <xor.gate.engineering@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 02/11/2011 03:42 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> Jerry,
> 
> Thanks for testing this out for me.
> 
>>
>> Now the grid draws as expected, there are still some issues left on OSX for the
>> drawing code:
>>
>>  - When moving a object you can't see where it is while moving
> 
> Which application? EESchema, PCBNew or all of them?

EESchema works just fine, with PCBNew it is broken.

>>  - The pen-width of the sheetframe is very thin (almost invisible)
> 
> This one is odd.  On Windows and Linux the sheet frame line width looks fine.

Marco Serantoni tried to fix this some long time ago which is not upstream.

>>  - The outline modes in pcbnew are broken
> 
> I'll take a look a these issues when I get a chance to see if I figure out what
> is wrong.

Thank you.

>>
>> Thank you for fixing this, i have the feeling that the drawing code is a bit
>> faster than before. This is good because it will still take some time to move
>> to the GAL.
> 
> It should be faster due the the number of intermediate function calls that have
> been eliminated.  Hopefully, the drawing code is cleaned up enough that when we
> finally get around to implementing the GAL code it will be a much more
> manageable task.

Better make it clean and easy to understand than hacking new features in
and make a mess again.

When I find some time I try to integrate some more Mac features so it
will feel real native. I'm still struggling to find out how I can catch
CMD+W for closing every window. The CMD key is the apple key to almost
all shortcuts. On linux and windows this is the Ctrl key. I like to use
the keyboard shortcuts but still kicad lacks the window closing hotkey.