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Re: Update on component chooser

 

Thanks. Could I have a bit more information so I can reproduce these? And
it would be nice if they were in the bug tracker, for... tracking.

On Mar 5, 2017 02:17, "Eldar Khayrullin" <eldar.khayrullin@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.
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