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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ongoing refactor of COMPONENT_TREE_SEARCH_CONTAINER into a
model-view-adapter architecture is at [1] (componentchooser branch of my
dev repo). The code is seriously cleaner now and significantly faster.
Should be done later today.

[1] https://github.com/cpavlina/kicad/tree/componentchooser


On Sat, Mar 04, 2017 at 01:38:37PM -0500, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> 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