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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hmm, maybe it is ok to use the technical terms OpenGL and Cairo in the help
text for the menu item. Afterall those terms have been used a lot in help
forums and launchpad, so it may make it easier for the curious to discover.

2018-01-03 21:15 GMT+01:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:

> There is also wxRichMessageDialog[1] which has an optional checkbox for
> show once features.
>
> [1]: http://docs.wxwidgets.org/3.0/classwx_rich_message_dialog.html
>
> On 1/3/2018 3:13 PM, Jon Evans wrote:
> > 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
> > <mailto: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>
> >     > <mailto: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>
> >     >     <mailto: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>
> >     >>         <mailto: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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