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[Bob Gustafson <bobgus@xxxxxxx>]

Super -  I will go out and get a standard PC logitech mouse.

According to the reports on the 5k iMac, you have 14.7 million pixels
with a resolution of 5,120x2,880 - very impressive. Bandwidth to the
screen is beyond Thunderbolt 2, so no wonder you have some slowness
moving pixels.

There may be an adjustment for resolution - so you can trade off speed
vs pixels.

Thanks much. I was beginning to believe there were no real KiCad Mac users.

Bob G

On 04/02/2015 03:24 AM, Piotr Esden-Tempski wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am using a 5k IMac with a standard PC logitech mouse. I have the nightly build 5547 installed.
>
> I do not experience any problems with zooming in GAL. (Besides the already reported bug with the F2 button) What I do experience is the lack of rats nest. Sometimes when zooming there is a remainder of a short rats nest wire but that is basically it.
>
> Also as a side note the only mode usable on the 5k iMac is the OpenGL GAL mode. Everything else is way too slow to be usable (probably too many pixels to render :D) I had to start Kicad in a low resolution mode so that default mode is somewhat usable. (Reported to Nick and he was so kind that he added this to the FAQ)
>
> I hope this is useful information.
>
> Cheers,
> Piotr
>
> > On Apr 2, 2015, at 12:50 AM, Maciej Sumiński <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On 04/01/2015 10:23 PM, Bob Gustafson wrote:
> > > I just now downloaded your OS X nightly build (both debug and regular) on my wife’s Mac mini. She does not like the trackpad and has an Apple Mouse (latest model) -> more or less a standard Mac (it does have a Cinema 30 from a previous Mac).
> > >
> > > When I create a board, add some chips and wires, I have difficulty in controlling the circuit on the screen. Whenever I touch the top of the mouse (one finger or two), the circuit layout zooms wildly. It doesn’t matter whether I stroke the mouse up and down or left-right, the circuit zooms big (bigger than the screen) or tiny. No panning action from the mouse.  This is with both the eeschema and pcbnew views.
> > >
> > > Perhaps I have my mouse preferences set incorrectly, but other applications work just fine. With LibreOffice or Preview, I can easily pan (one finger) in all directions without causing any zoom.
> > >
> > > This is close to the same action I see on my Mac Laptop.
> > >
> > > If this is the normal operation of KiCad on the Mac, I can’t see how it can be a release version.
> > >
> > > Bob G
> > Have you or any other OS X user tried GAL with a common PC USB mouse? Is
> > the problem associated with this particular mouse model or is it the
> > same for any other pointing device under OS X?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Orson
> >
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