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Re: eeschema GAL renderer (with old tools)

 

On 6/4/2018 2:58 PM, Tomasz Wlostowski wrote:
> 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.

I ised `git checkout -b origin/tom-eeschema-gal`.  Is this not the
correct branch?

> 
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Wayne
>>
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