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[Simon Wells <swel024@xxxxxxxxx>]

bernhard, are the ones that are the easily visible ones the darker
grid lines (ever 5 or so) that are more intense in the line mode

On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 4:27 AM, Bernhard Stegmaier
<stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Maybe some anti-aliasing issue?
> For me, dots are also quite small and some of them are barely visible, while
> others look quite normal.
>
> When I played around with the grid dots on OS X in legacy canvas I also had
> a hard time to find a configuration where dots are visible both on (HiDPI)
> retina and normal displays (on OS X also legacy canvas is anti-aliased).
>
> On 03 May 2016, at 18:20, jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Le 03/05/2016 à 18:06, Bernhard Stegmaier a écrit :
>
> In the Dimensions => Grid menu you can switch between dots/lines (also took
> me some while, I would have expected it in some preferences dialog).
> I don’t think that it is a (common) wxWidgets 3.1 issue.
> My OS X build uses a wxWidgets master maybe two weeks old and grid is fine
> both with dots and lines.
>
>
> Thanks, Bernhard.
>
> @Orson,
> On wxWidgets 3.1, the dotted grid is not visible on Opengl. The line grid is
> visible.
> On Cairo, both are displayed.
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Bernhard
>
> On 03 May 2016, at 17:46, jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Le 03/05/2016 à 15:56, Maciej Sumiński a écrit :
>
> On 05/02/2016 06:33 PM, jp charras wrote:
>
> Le 02/05/2016 à 17:16, Maciej Sumiński a écrit :
>
> As noone had opposed the changes, I have just merged the bitmap fonts
> branch.
>
> As a small bonus, we have also added an option to switch to dotted grid
> in GAL (thanks to Tom for refactoring the grid drawing routine).
>
> Regards,
> Orson
>
>
> A lot of work! Thanks to Tomasz and you.
>
> After a fast and short test, the change looks good.
>
> However, I noticed 2 issues (W7 32 bits on msys2):
> - The grid is not visible on OpenGL, but is visible on Cairo.
> - I can switch between legacy and Cairo, as long I not switched to OpenGL,
> but if I switch to Cairo
> from OpenGL, or from legacy after having previously switched to Opengl,
> Pcbnew crashes.
>
>
> Hi Jean-Pierre,
>
> Is grid invisible in both modes (lines & dots)?
>
>
> How to change the mode ?
>
> Nevertheless, the dot grid is not displayed when using wxWidgets 3.1, and it
> is displayed when using
> wxWidgets 3.0.2.
> I never see issues previously with lines.
>
>
> Would you send me a backtrace? I cannot make it crash on W7_64/msys2.
>
>
> Unfortunately, the bt is small:
> When switching from OpenGL to cairo:
> #0  0x77293c4d in ntdll!DbgBreakPoint () from C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll
> #1  0x772febef in ntdll!DbgUiRemoteBreakin ()
>  from C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll
> #2  0x29813028 in ?? ()
> #3  0x75b0ef1c in KERNEL32!BaseThreadInitThunk ()
>  from C:\Windows\system32\kernel32.dll
> #4  0x772c3648 in ntdll!RtlInitializeExceptionChain ()
>  from C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll
> #5  0x772c361b in ntdll!RtlInitializeExceptionChain ()
>  from C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll
> #6  0x00000000 in ?? ()
>
> And when existing in legacy mode (after using Opengl mode):
> #0  0x5628ae51 in ?? () from C:\Windows\system32\ig4icd32.dll
> Backtrace stopped: Cannot access memory at address 0x3
>
>
> More strange, when starting pcbnew (Debug build) in legacy mode and
> switching to Cairo more:
> - crash if running under gdb (giving the same backtrace as when switching
> from OpenGL to cairo,
> therefore this bt is perhaps due only to switching to cairo on gdb).
> - does no crash when running without gdb.
>
>
> Regards,
> Orson
>
>
>
>
>
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