kicad-developers team mailing list archive

[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

He can install xcode but isn't familiar with it (does embedded development,
but not PC) - is this something that would be relatively easy to do for an
otherwise computer-literate non-developer?
On Dec 22, 2015 4:57 AM, "Bernhard Stegmaier" <stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> I did the profiling Adam mentioned and found that dotted/dashed lines
> didn’t work well in pcbnew and footprint editor.
> This was fixed in rev6278.
>
> How complex is the project?
> Compared to some of the demo projects?
>
> Does he have Xcode on his machine?
> I could provide some hints on how to make a profiling trace of his slow
> use-cases… I think it can be saved and probably I could analyse a bit.
>
>
> Regards,
> Bernhard
>
> > On 22 Dec 2015, at 01:20, Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Apparently even eeschema is unusable on this particular setup. :(
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 06:08:44PM -0600, Adam Wolf wrote:
> >> IIRC, OS X doesn't have an XOR draw mode.
> >>
> >> After a certain size PCB, PCBnew legacy graphics on OS X is unusable.
> This
> >> size is much lower than it is in Linux, on the same hardware.
> >>
> >> Someone awesome on the list, I forget who right now, did some profiling
> and
> >> fixed a wx issue that was causing some slowness, and I used the
> profiler a
> >> bit more after that and was unable to find substantial increases with
> the
> >> same technique.
> >>
> >> Adam Wolf
> >>
> >> Okay, this is just a quick call for information for now, not sure if
> this
> >> is a known issue (and I'm relaying from a friend, don't have one here to
> >> test) - have any OSX users noticed some severe slowness in the legacy
> >> graphics (including eeschema) while panning, zooming, and picking up and
> >> moving objects? This is on a relatively recent (2014, IIRC, and another
> >> 2015) Macbook. Apparently it's borderline unusable.
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
> >> Post to     : kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
> >> More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
> > Post to     : kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
> > More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
>
>