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[jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 28/10/2015 01:32, Cirilo Bernardo a écrit :
> Thanks to nickoe I'm finally able to build on MSWin and was able to
> get the dynamic plugins working on that platform. With some help on
> the kicad IRC channel I was able to make changes and verify that
> dynamic plugins work on OSX as well. (On MSWin I will need to do
> some more work - the file selector visuals are unbelievably ugly at the
> moment, but this really has nothing to do with dynamic plugins.)

You could derive PANEL_PREV_3D from a wxPanel instead of a wxStaticBox,
and use a wxStaticBoxSizer instead of a wxBoxSizer as main sizer for
PANEL_PREV_3D.

It fixes this issue, and using a wxPanel has some advantages (for
instance if you want to use wxFormBuilder to build a PANEL_PREV_3D base,
it is a basic "form" for wxFormBuilder .


> 
> Now that I know how to make dynamic plugins work I should be able
> to (1) finish the implementation of 3D model loading via dynamic
> plugins, and (2) create a dynamic plugin scheme for Export functions
> so I can finally implement an IGES exporter. My intention with the
> Export plugins is to make it possible to implement a dynamic Export
> menu and to load exporter code as required; the implementation
> will make it possible to add more export options without touching any
> KiCad source files at all. In principle dynamic plugins can also be
> implemented for Importers but I believe the Export plugin job will keep
> me busy for a long time since an API must be developed to interact
> with KiCad and this will not be a trivial task.
> 
> I'll finish work on (1) first of course so we can take advantage of Mario's
> new renderer and have 3D previews of model files as we browse them.
> 
> - Cirilo
> 
> 
> 
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