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Re: wxGTK3 patches

 

...and for some reason antialiasing stays enabled anyway. I retract the
question.

Cheers,
Orson

On 02/08/2018 09:01 AM, Maciej Sumiński wrote:
> 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
>>>> <0001-GTK3-Display-a-warning-and-enable-wxGraphicsContext.patch><0002-wxWidgets-GTK3-compatibility-fixes-for-eeschema.patch>_______________________________________________
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