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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 05/18/2018 01:13 PM, Jeff Young wrote:
> I still think we should do the full canvas + toolset for 6.0…
> 
> … or are we thinking we might port just the canvas change back to 5.0.1?

I think back porting the gtk3 fixes to v5 is going to become more
important pretty quickly.  Most linux distros are already shipping gtk3
builds of wx and I don't see them supporting gtk2 forever.  I don't want
to be in a place where we are spending time maintaining a gtk2 build
just so we can have a workable solution on linux.  In the end, we will
have to support gtk3 even without the rendering issues.  I'm not sure
these wont be more problematic than the rendering.

> 
>>> …
> 
>>> So my question is:
>>> It is possible to use the GAL itself (restricted to the graphic
>>> layer), and keep the current
>>> wxWidget management events in eeschema and page layout editor
>>> (although the graphics in pl_editor
>>> are so basic we can redraw the full screen without any optimization
>>> each time a object is moving).
>>
>> Hi JP,
>>
>> Yes, it should be possible with some modifications to the current event
>> handling code (mostly removing XOR draw calls). I have partly written a
>> GAL canvas renderer for eeschema some time ago, let me dig it up and
>> post it on Github.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> Tom
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>
>>>>> Wayne
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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