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[Maciej Sumiński <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx>]

One more question, I have just realized that I disabled antialiasing
when USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT is enabled. Is that fine for macOS or
eeschema runs fast enough, so antialiasing is preferred?

Cheers,
Orson

On 02/07/2018 06:36 PM, Bernhard Stegmaier wrote:
> … yes, no good.
> It seems to be OK when just panning around.
> But, it gets very laggy while e.g. dragging/moving symbols around (even on a not so big schematic I had at hand).
> 
> It is fine if you take out the Refresh() quoted below on macOS.
> I didn’t see any obvious things on a quick check with the remaining changes (might be due to the fact that crosshair is still disabled on macOS?).
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Bernhard
> 
>> On 7. Feb 2018, at 17:32, Bernhard Stegmaier <stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> … USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT is on per default on macOS.
>>
>> I will check tonight, but I guess/fear that the part
>> <<<
>> +#ifdef USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT
>> +    // Screen has to be updated on every operation, otherwise the cursor leaves a trail (when xor
>> +    // operation is changed to copy) or is not updated at all.
>> +    Refresh();
>> +#endif
>>>>>
>> will make it slow (might cause double painting every time because of how it is already handled right now without the extra refresh).
>>
>> I’ll report (if no other macOS guy is faster than me… :) )
>>
>>
>> Bernhard
>>
>>> On 7. Feb 2018, at 15:38, Maciej Sumiński <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> Two patches to fix some troubles occurring on wxGTK3. The first one
>>> displays a warning when it detects that KiCad is being built against
>>> wxGTK3. The second one makes eeschema functional, just a bit slower when
>>> compared to wxGTK2. The only thing that is really broken is pcbnew
>>> printing, but there are also some other glitches (e.g. black background
>>> in eeschema printing preview, though the actual printouts are ok).
>>>
>>> I have tested the patch under Linux and Windows and noticed no influence
>>> on wxMSW/wxGTK2, as expected. I would love to hear from OSX users that
>>> there are no new issues introduced in the patch.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, it does not resolve the recent wxpython-gtk3 issue on
>>> Arch Linux. The problem occurs when KiCad is linked against wxGTK2, but
>>> wxPython uses wxGTK3. In such case KiCad loads wxGTK2 libraries on start
>>> and when wxPython is initialized - it tries to load wxGTK3 causing
>>> symbol conflicts. I guess there is not much we can do about it, apart
>>> from detecting such situation and informing the user about the problem
>>> cause. Any other ideas?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Orson
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