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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

wxwidgets does not work well (at all?) when build with gtk3.  If your
custom build of phoenix and/or wxwidgets was built against gtk3, you are
going to issues.  Until the wx project resolves it's gtk3 issues, kicad
must be built with wx built with gtk2.

On 11/24/2017 04:19 AM, miles mccoo wrote:
> 
> 
> in reply to Wayne's request to run the footprint wizard
> 
> I run the footprint wizard; it seems to run fine.
> when I press the 3D view button, I get a popup complaining about not
> finding the wx gtk2 library
>   "10:14:11: libwx_gtk2u_core-3.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file:
> No such file or directory
>    10:14:11: libwx_gtk2u_core-3.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file:
> No such file or directory"
> 
> which is odd because I have the gtk3 version of wx on my system.
> 
> 
> 
> In the second half of the video below, I point out that after modifying
> module locations in python, the GAL screen doesn't seem to update, even
> with the refresh command from the menu. 
> 
> After I recorded the video, I found that switching to legacy canvas and
> then back to GAL, seems to trigger the needed redraw. How to I initiate
> this redraw from python? (or even c. I could update the swig stuff to
> call it in the refresh method available to python). Previously, I'd just
> worked in legacy but that's acting weird for me.
> 
> Miles
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 10:44 PM, Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     I guess this is the same idea as with
>     https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-python
>     <https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-python>
> 
>     2017-11-23 19:28 GMT+01:00 Greg Smith <ecomputerd@xxxxxxxxx
>     <mailto:ecomputerd@xxxxxxxxx>>:
> 
>         "I was simply afraid that we
>         may spent a lot of time petting the SWIG interface, which we
>         will nuke
>         it and start from scratch because of inevitable switch to Phoenix."
> 
>         I agree. I would suggest that the Python API is not quite stable
>         enough to freeze the API. If we desire a stable interface/API,
>         one could be written in Python itself. I am on the edge of
>         implementing such an interface with KiCommand.
> 
>         KiCommand, in addition to being a command line interface, is a
>         set of function calls that *could* be considered an API / Python
>         class when complete.
> 
>         I have reviewed the Python API unit tests and found them to be
>         lacking in coverage. I am duplicating those tests in KiCommand,
>         and plan to extend the KiCommand tests, which could potentially
>         be applied to the current Python API.
> 
>         If a stable API is desired, there should also be a set of unit
>         tests verifying that functionality.
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