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Re: eeschema GAL renderer (with old tools)

 

On 04/06/18 19:31, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> 
> On 6/1/2018 4:39 PM, Tomasz Wlostowski wrote:
>> On 28/05/18 23:43, Tomasz Wlostowski wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> This is to inform that I'm working on it (as the XOR-based rendering
>>> doesn't work under GTK3). I wrote a hacked GAL canvas which uses the
>>> legacy eeschema tool code. It's non-functional yet (editing-wise), but
>>> draws the schematics and the selection rectangles.
>>>
>>> I'll publish the code as soon as it is in usable state.
>>>
>> Hi again,
>>
>> I've uploaded a more-or-less functional version of GALified eeschema to
>> my github [1]. Note it only has new canvas, but old tools (hacked to
>> work with different rendering model). Currently only the schematic
>> editor is GALified, the viewer/library editor as well as all preview
>> panels in various dialogs still use the old renderer.
>>
>> Have a look if you have time and report bugs (I know the colors are
>> somewhat incorrect and pin labels are sometimes at wrong positions).
>>
>> Since we are at it: could someone of our senior devs explain why the
>> library editor view has inverted Y axis wrs to all other Kicad applications?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Tom
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/twlostow/kicad-dev/tree/tom-eeschema-gal
>>
> 
> Tom,
> 
> I tried cloning and branching to tom-eeschema-gal to do some testing and
> found it was so far behind master that it was still downloading and
> building boost by default (stable 4 build stuff).  I don't see any sane
> way to merge with master unless I use the wrong branch.  Is this branch
> really what you are going to merge a part of the gtk3 fix?
> 
Hi Wayne,

I double-checked this, my branch is based on master commit
6866c0c8a51784516b4ad75e9c176ea8b774d9fe from 8th of May 2018. Maybe
you've checked out a wrong branch?

Cheers,
Tom

PS. cvpcb fails with a linker error, I'll fix it later.

> Cheers,
> 
> Wayne
> 
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