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[Fred Cooke <fred.cooke@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well, I've said it before, and I'll say it again, but I'm here to test
if anyone comes up with anything! :-)

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Jerry Jacobs
<xor.gate.engineering@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 7/20/11 1:37 PM, Fred Cooke wrote:
>>
>> Hi, I tried it, but the performance was still abysmal. I find it
>> unusable. Scrolling and zooming are one frame per second and it really
>> disrupts anything that you are trying to do.
>
> The native performance on Mac OS X compared to Windows and Linux is a very
> big difference.
>
>> A friend of mine, who is a Mac lover, created this for testing, it's
>> made with "winebottler" and works acceptably. I just fired it up at the
>> same time as your custom one to compare performance with the same
>> machine load/available cpu time and it is really night and day.
>>
>> Excuse the win UI. If the download disappears, let me know, I will
>> upload it to my server instead.
>>
>> 200 meg http://sorsacode.com/KiCad.app.zip
>
> I tried it, and it is not bad at all if you want something that just works
> (That is why I still have Mac OS X noted as experimental on the kicad wiki).
> It draws tons faster then the native build (even with the X11 dependency).
>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Fred.
>
> Good luck, and maybe in some time the native build will have the same
> performance as on the other platforms.
>
>> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Marco Serantoni
>> <marco.serantoni@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:marco.serantoni@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>>    Try this one http://www.mdx4.org/uploads/kicad/Kicad-20-MAY-2011.zip
>>
>>    This uses an hacked version of wx-widgets to enable the Native
>>    wxOverlay, the result is a working Kicad with some small issues but
>>    i think still usable.
>>
>>    This was possible after the fix of some problems with the UserScale
>>    ( http://trac.wxwidgets.org/ticket/13216 ) now in the svn tree.
>>
>>    Still missing a native wxOverlay implementation under Cocoa:
>>    http://trac.wxwidgets.org/ticket/12894
>>    (The default implemented flickers)
>>
>>    --
>>    Marco
>>
>>
>>
>>    On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Fred Cooke <fred.cooke@xxxxxxxxx
>>    <mailto:fred.cooke@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>>        OK, back from the shops!
>>
>>        kicad_osx_v3009_STABLE
>>
>>        It was some daily build, I think. I'm sure you know where from.
>>
>>        I suspected that it was a wx issue. Can you give me a link to
>> pester
>>        the wx devs? I will happily be their tester too :-)
>>
>>        I have a project of my own and a bunch of people, at least two
>>        of whom
>>        are reading this use or want to use Kicad to design PCBs for it.
>>
>>        One of my biggest fans is a Mac fan, which is how I ended up with a
>>        Mac, he'll be happy if it works reasonably on them too.
>>
>>        Regards,
>>
>>        Fred.
>>
>>        On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Marco Serantoni
>>        <marco.serantoni@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:marco.serantoni@xxxxxxxxx>>
>>        wrote:
>>         >
>>         > On 15/lug/2011, at 15.39, Fred Cooke wrote:
>>         > Fred,
>>         > About which version you are referring to, picked from where ?
>>         > And which test you have done ?
>>         >
>>         > Cause is Know,
>>         > wx-widgets related vs XOR (un)support on OSX, workarounded
>>        with wxOverlay that is not correctly implemented under wxCoccoa
>> too.
>>         > ask to wx-developers.
>>         >
>>         > Regards,
>>         >  Marco
>>         >
>>         >> 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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