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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm willing to commit it if the osx devs are confident that it's going
to work and it doesn't break anything on windows or linux.

On 1/3/2016 4:40 PM, Adam Wolf wrote:
> I can take a look at it early this week, but don't feel like you have to
> hold off for me.
> 
> On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 3:34 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     Is this ready to be committed or does it need additional testing by
>     other OSX users?
> 
>     On 1/1/2016 5:06 PM, Bernhard Stegmaier wrote:
>     > Hi,
>     >
>     > I played around on how to more efficiently draw the grid on OS X
>     in legacy canvases.
>     > Attached is a patch with the best improvement I found (without
>     radical changes).
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > However, I am not really sure about it… on one of my machines it
>     definitely is an improvement, on the other it doesn’t make a big
>     difference.
>     >
>     > So, could some of the OS X folks still compiling their own
>     versions maybe test it and give feedback?
>     > To get activated, you need to configure with
>     “-DUSE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=ON”, because it uses wxGraphicContext
>     (which probably was not directly used on OS X before, but shouldn’t
>     be any problem).
>     >
>     > I also have uploaded my build for anyone who might want to try
>     without compiling to
>     >   https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bxxu6Mh3pHubcTBjeXdaemNSblE
>     > It should run on 10.10 and above (but probably not on older
>     processors).
>     > And no, package doesn’t look like official builds, there is no
>     support, no scripting, no github plugin, … :)
>     >
>     > It would especially be great if some of the users who recently
>     complained about “borderline usability” could check to see if it
>     makes things better for them.
>     >
>     >
>     > Regards,
>     > Bernhard
>     >
>     > PS:
>     > A really huge improvement (much more than the one above) would be
>     to draw grid as lines.
>     > However, this needs major tweaking of grid colors/transparency.
>     > If you just draw lines like it is now you more or less only will
>     see grid lines everywhere.
>     >
>     > PPS:
>     > I also tried drawing one row into a memory bitmap and blitting
>     that one for each grid row (maybe a bit like the “optimized version”
>     still mentioned in the comment in the code).
>     > This is slower than directly drawing the grid...
>     >
>     >
>     >
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