Please report back when it is ready for testing... 2017-03-05 15:04 GMT+01:00 Chris Pavlina <pavlina.ch...@gmail.com>: > Ongoing refactor of COMPONENT_TREE_SEARCH_CONTAINER into a > model-view-adapter architecture is at [1] (componentchooser branch of my > dev repo). The code is seriously cleaner now and significantly faster. > Should be done later today. > > [1] https://github.com/cpavlina/kicad/tree/componentchooser > > > On Sat, Mar 04, 2017 at 01:38:37PM -0500, Chris Pavlina wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Just thought I'd provide a quick update on what's going on with the >> component chooser. Things have been pretty delayed - I've had more >> issues than expected, and I'm trying to work around my school schedule >> too - but I'm still moving along (and I have almost a full week off now, >> most of which will be spent on this). >> >> Currently, I'm working on resolving a macOS performance issue that >> causes updates to cost about 0.5s per keystroke for large library sets. >> I'm looking at two possible solutions: >> >> - Implement my own wxDataViewModel, reimplementing most or all of >> COMPONENT_TREE_SEARCH_CONTAINER in the process and making the >> component tree a model/view architecture. This is very much >> preferable, but I'm not 100% sure if this will give the desired >> performance boost. I'll do this first as it's a useful refactoring >> anyway. >> >> - Implement an optimizing adapter that wraps TWO_COLUMN_TREE_LIST. This >> would populate the underlying list only with visible items, >> intercepting "expand" events and populating the parents with their >> children on demand. This is an ugly hack and I'd like not to resort >> to this. >> >> When I'm done with this, I want to make a couple more changes before >> proceeding, based on user feedback: >> >> - Make the component info box collapsible. >> - Also display component info in a rich tooltip >> - Add a resizable splitter between footprint and symbol display >> >> Once all of this is done, the next steps are: >> >> - Add footprint filtering and selection >> - Add 3D preview >> >> Please, feel free to file bug reports even on minor UI quirks - I don't >> always notice or remember them. >> >> -- >> Chris > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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