Re: [Kicad-developers] Plans for (OpenGL-/Cairo-/Default-) canvases after stable?

2015-11-09 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 11/9/2015 1:49 PM, Nick Østergaard wrote: > 2015-11-09 9:49 GMT+01:00 Tomasz Wlostowski : >> On 08.11.2015 22:43, Bernhard Stegmaier wrote: >>> is there any roadmap/plan for how to go on with the three canvases in >>> pcbnew after the stable release? >> >> Hi Bernhard, >> >> Yes, there is a pla

Re: [Kicad-developers] Plans for (OpenGL-/Cairo-/Default-) canvases after stable?

2015-11-09 Thread Nick Østergaard
2015-11-09 9:49 GMT+01:00 Tomasz Wlostowski : > On 08.11.2015 22:43, Bernhard Stegmaier wrote: >> is there any roadmap/plan for how to go on with the three canvases in pcbnew >> after the stable release? > > Hi Bernhard, > > Yes, there is a plan. In short: > - Port the remaining features of the "l

Re: [Kicad-developers] Plans for (OpenGL-/Cairo-/Default-) canvases after stable?

2015-11-09 Thread Tomasz Wlostowski
On 08.11.2015 22:43, Bernhard Stegmaier wrote: > is there any roadmap/plan for how to go on with the three canvases in pcbnew > after the stable release? Hi Bernhard, Yes, there is a plan. In short: - Port the remaining features of the "legacy" canvas such as component auto-placement or delete-t

Re: [Kicad-developers] Plans for (OpenGL-/Cairo-/Default-) canvases after stable?

2015-11-08 Thread Jon Neal
No, the default is the "legacy" renderer is an XOR based renderer. Cairo is similar to OpenGL renderer in that it is a renderer for GAL. I think it is F12? Dunno, look in the view menu for that. On Nov 8, 2015 20:51, "Stefano Rossi" wrote: > Is Cairo not the default? I thought that was the defau

Re: [Kicad-developers] Plans for (OpenGL-/Cairo-/Default-) canvases after stable?

2015-11-08 Thread Jon Neal
As far as I know the plan is to completely replace the legacy canvas with the GAL setup. This is both the OpenGL renderer and the Cairo renderer. You are correct that not all of the features from the legacy canvas have been implemented in GAL, but has come a long way! Not sure of a timeline from th

[Kicad-developers] Plans for (OpenGL-/Cairo-/Default-) canvases after stable?

2015-11-08 Thread Bernhard Stegmaier
Hi, is there any roadmap/plan for how to go on with the three canvases in pcbnew after the stable release? With the last PCB I made recently I noticed that for whatever reason the redraw problems/artefacts with default canvas on OSX got much worse compared to my last board made maybe one year