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Re: Mac OS X Performance Questions

 

Jerry, I'm keen to test if people are making worthwhile changes to
impact the performance issues! If you know of any version that needs
some runtime on OS X, email me, or reply to this, and I'll do what I'm
told! Thanks! OK, next message :-)

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Jerry Jacobs
<xor.gate.engineering@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello Fred,
>
> There are not so many people (yet) which run KiCad on Mac OS X, I build it
> regular and also with latest development version of wxWidgets. The
> underlaying graphics layer is not the most efficient/fastest in kicad.
>
> The scrolling/zooming with the touchpad on the macbook zooms and scrolls at
> the same time and needs to be fixed.
>
> More testing is needed on OS X but there is only a small group of users and
> developers on this platform.
>
> Kind regards,
> Jerry
>
> On 7/15/11 3:39 PM, Fred Cooke wrote:
>>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> A few weeks ago I tried KiCad on OS X and although eeschema appeared
>> to work OK, pcbnew was unusably slow (0.3fps scrolling or zooming in
>> 2d, 3d, which I just, tried is acceptable). I assume that you're
>> already aware of this, and as such I have the following questions:
>>
>> Is the cause known?
>> If not, is it being looked for?
>> If so, is it being worked on?
>> If so, estimated date of completion?
>>
>> If my assumption about this being a known issue was wrong, can I do
>> something to provide feedback more formally?
>>
>> Thank you for your time!
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Fred.
>>
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