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[Eldar Khayrullin <eldar.khayrullin@xxxxxxx>]

Hello. You do good work.
I see UI issues:
- the window struct breaks on resize the window
- some components doesn't show symbol
- some components doesn't show fields

kicad@24a9003
Daily PPA.
OS: Ubuntu 16.10

В Суббота, 4 мар. 2017 в 9:38 , Chris Pavlina 
<pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx> написал:
> Hi,
>
> Just thought I'd provide a quick update on what's going on with the
> component chooser. Things have been pretty delayed - I've had more
> issues than expected, and I'm trying to work around my school schedule
> too - but I'm still moving along (and I have almost a full week off 
> now,
> most of which will be spent on this).
>
> Currently, I'm working on resolving a macOS performance issue that
> causes updates to cost about 0.5s per keystroke for large library 
> sets.
> I'm looking at two possible solutions:
>
>  - Implement my own wxDataViewModel, reimplementing most or all of
>    COMPONENT_TREE_SEARCH_CONTAINER in the process and making the
>    component tree a model/view architecture. This is very much
>    preferable, but I'm not 100% sure if this will give the desired
>    performance boost. I'll do this first as it's a useful refactoring
>    anyway.
>
>  - Implement an optimizing adapter that wraps TWO_COLUMN_TREE_LIST. 
> This
>    would populate the underlying list only with visible items,
>    intercepting "expand" events and populating the parents with their
>    children on demand. This is an ugly hack and I'd like not to resort
>    to this.
>
> When I'm done with this, I want to make a couple more changes before
> proceeding, based on user feedback:
>
>  - Make the component info box collapsible.
>  - Also display component info in a rich tooltip
>  - Add a resizable splitter between footprint and symbol display
>
> Once all of this is done, the next steps are:
>
>  - Add footprint filtering and selection
>  - Add 3D preview
>
> Please, feel free to file bug reports even on minor UI quirks - I 
> don't
> always notice or remember them.
>
> --
> Chris
>
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