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Re: Selection Highlighting

 

@Seth, can you post a video or some screen-shots?  Cairo and a Retina display are pretty much a non-starter.

Cheers,
Jeff.


> On 1 Sep 2019, at 17:13, Eeli Kaikkonen <eeli.kaikkonen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> For everone's information - there was user discussion in the forum: https://forum.kicad.info/t/selection-highlighting-in-development-version/18694 <https://forum.kicad.info/t/selection-highlighting-in-development-version/18694>.
> 
> Eeli Kaikkonen
> 
> su 1. syysk. 2019 klo 6.32 Seth Hillbrand (seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>) kirjoitti:
> Hi Jeff (and others interested)-
> 
> I pushed a proposal for blurring the eeschema selection highlighting to 
> my personal repo at [1].  Currently, I'm only blurring the Cairo 
> selections, so don't run this branch with OpenGL yet.
> 
> I really like the new eeschema halo-for-selection paradigm but it does 
> suffer for legibility issues on small text.  The blur of the halo fixes 
> this somewhat and gives the selection a smoother feel (imo).  If folks 
> like it, I'll write up some shaders for OpenGL to do the same.  The 
> performance doesn't seem bad on my machine, but I'd love additional 
> opinions/comments
> 
> Best-
> Seth
> 
> [1] 
> https://code.launchpad.net/~sethh/kicad/+git/kicad/+ref/blur_highlight <https://code.launchpad.net/~sethh/kicad/+git/kicad/+ref/blur_highlight>
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