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[Tomasz Wlostowski <tomasz.wlostowski@xxxxxxx>]

On 04/12/17 18:59, Jon Evans wrote:
> I've got some experience with Qt and would be willing to help out with
> investigating this at some point.   My only experience with wx is with
> kicad, and it seems to have many more problems than Qt...
> On the other hand, I disagree with the suggestion that Electron would be
> a good path for KiCad, every single Electron program I have used has
> terrible performance.

What I meant is using electron exclusively for the GUI (same as Qt), to
ease the design of a modern and customizable interface. All internals,
canvases, tools would be still C++. AFAIK most Electron apps are
entirely written in HTML/JS, which may be the reason for sluggish
performance.

Anyway, we'll have to stick to wx for the reasonable future.

Tom


> 
> -Jon
> 
> On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 12:55 PM, Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 05:53:12PM +0000, Tomasz Wlostowski wrote:
>     > On 04/12/17 18:48, Chris Pavlina wrote:
>     > > Hey, just a comment because I see people are wrestling with
>     > > COMPONENT_TREE performance as I did when writing it. TEST ON MACOS. The
>     > > performance of the widget there has a really different profile from on
>     > > other systems. I had to do things in really unobvious ways to make it
>     > > perform reasonably there.
>     > >
>     >
>     > I've noticed spending more and more time fixing wxWidgets bugs instead
>     > of Kicad bugs. Maybe we should have a serious look at Qt or Electron
>     > (Webkit/JS-based UI) as a possible future alternative for wx...
> 
>     YES. I try not to bring it up too much because I know the lead devs
>     aren't fond of the idea of changing the GUI toolkit, but I strongly
>     believe we could benefit from that. Obviously it can't really happen
>     until we ditch wxDC.
> 
>     >
>     > Tom (fighting with wxWidgets thread safety under Windows...)
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