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[Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I figured we might want to re-use this in the future if we ever have
additional "show once" things that are more complicated than yes/no
(although I didn't make it with formbuilder).
It would be fine to switch to a messagedialog.  I can probably do that
tonight.

-Jon

On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 3:09 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> John,
>
> I took a look at your patch.  Is there any reason why you didn't use
> wxMessageDialog instead of creating wxFormbuilder project for such a
> simple dialog?  It seems to me that wxMessageDialog would do the trick
> as it allows you to change the strings for the Ok and Cancel buttons.
> Other than that, everything else seems fine.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wayne
>
> On 12/31/2017 4:28 PM, Jon Evans wrote:
> > For your consideration, a patch is attached that implements the above.
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 2:24 PM, Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > <mailto:jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >     I think that getting automatic OpenGL detection and recovery working
> >     for 5.0 might be ambitious.
> >     Maybe Chris can detail what the next steps are for his approach
> >     there, but in case we want to push that to a later release, here's
> >     what I propose:
> >
> >     1) Rename the View menu options based on my proposal "Legacy",
> >     "Modern (Accelerated)", "Modern (Fallback)"
> >     2) Change PCB_BASE_FRAME::SwitchCanvas to save the canvas config
> >     value after calling UseGalCanvas() rather than before.
> >     3) Show a first-run dialog like the mockup in my earlier email, IF
> >     canvas is not OpenGL and the dialog has not been shown before
> >     44) If user clicks "yes" in the first run dialog, then:
> >         (a) set the config value to prevent the dialog from showing
> again,
> >         (b) Set the canvas config setting to Cairo (but don't switch the
> >     GAL to Cairo), then
> >         (c) switch to OpenGL canvas using SwitchCanvas()
> >
> >     That way, if the app crashes in step 4c, it should come back up as
> >     Cairo on the next launch (assuming we crash right away when trying
> >     to set up the canvas)
> >
> >     Any concerns with the above?
> >
> >     -Jon
> >
> >
> >
> >     On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 1:55 PM, Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx
> >     <mailto:jeff@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >         +1
> >
> >         No menu items.  Just a checkbox for Enable Hardware Acceleration
> >         in Preferences.
> >
> >>         On 31 Dec 2017, at 18:36, Andy Peters <devel@xxxxxxxxx
> >>         <mailto:devel@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >>
> >>>         - In the case of graphics glitches, inform the users in the
> >>>         FAQ/Manual
> >>>         that they can fall back to software renderer in the View menu.
> >>>         - Don't use the term 'canvas' or 'view'. Just 'Enable HW
> >>>         acceleration’.
> >>
> >>         I like that. The fewer technical/programmer terms, the better.
> >
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