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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Perfect.  All the signs here point to a misconfiguration in my build (which
unfortunately means a misconfiguration in a lot of builds) but hopefully I
can get it tracked down shortly.

When I first started my builds, they were nice and snappy, so if we've
always had high DPI rendering in legacy canvas, then that isn't it.

Thanks everyone!

On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Bernhard Stegmaier <
stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> My current build is not very current (5796), but…
> Scrolling/Zooming is not as smooth as with GAL (which is really
> responsive), but nowhere near 30s between 2 frames.
> One zoom step is way below 0.25s for my last board (about 5x10cm)
>
> In my feeling performance drops in legacy canvas more with bigger boards
> (more components, tracks?), but still really usable.
> Noticeable especially when comparing my (small) boards to the
> bigger/complex demo boards.
>
> This is on a not so beefy (i5) late 2012 13-inch MacBook Pro Retina.
>
> Don’t deactivate high DPI rendering… this really looks like crap on Retina
> displays.
> And as far as I know legacy canvas did high-DPI rendering from when I
> started to use KiCad almost 2 years ago (this was one reason to switch).
> High-DPI rendering recently was only activated for GAL if I remember
> correctly…
>
>
> Regards,
> Bernhard
>
> On 21 Sep 2015, at 19:12, Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I'll take a look.  That would be quite nice if that's it!
>
> Adam Wolf
>
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Are you configuring osx builds with -DUSE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=ON?  I
>> know on linux, this brings the legacy canvas to it's knees because it's
>> effectively cairo.
>>
>> On 9/21/2015 1:03 PM, Adam Wolf wrote:
>> > Hi folks,
>> >
>> > How is everyone else's graphics performance in pcbnew on OS X?
>> >
>> > GAL works nice and fast, but the traditional canvas isn't usable on my
>> > relatively beefy Macbook Pro.
>> >
>> > This isn't a new regression, but it hasn't always been this way, and has
>> > been discussed previously on the mailing list.
>> >
>> > Do we have any ideas on what to do here? Leave it?  See if it's
>> > something we can fix?  Earlier it was hypothesized it was due to high
>> > DPI rendering.  Can we set it up so the traditional canvas isn't in high
>> > DPI rendering?
>> >
>> > I can post a video if no one else has--but we're talking 30+ seconds
>> > between frames when you zoom.
>> >
>> > Adam Wolf
>> > Cofounder and Engineer
>> > W&L
>> >
>> >
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