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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

We're still going back and forth privately with small tweaks, hold on a bit :)


On Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 04:46:55PM -0500, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> 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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