* Boost 1.65 being the version Ubuntu 18.04 LTS currently has and are committed to support until EOL.
On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 9:19 AM Mark Roszko <mark.ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > Markus, > > We currently require support for a minimum of boost 1.59 due to Linux > distros lagging behind. boost/beast is not a viable option as beast did not > appear in boost until 1.66. > > From some offhand sounding out we may be able to bump the minimum to 1.65 > but that doesn't help :/ > > > Regards, > Mark > > On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 9:00 AM Jon Evans <j...@craftyjon.com> wrote: > >> Hello Markus, >> >> This is exciting news, as some of our users are also big fans of >> 3dconnexion products[1] >> >> Others have looked in to what it would take in the past, but there were >> some questions about the need for proprietary drivers on some platforms[2] >> >> It sounds like this websocket interface is a new approach that doesn't >> require any additional libraries for KiCad to link against? >> Does the hardware use some other daemon process to bridge between the >> device driver and websockets? >> >> As you may know, KiCad uses wxWidgets as a framework, so you probably >> want to plug in to the wx event loop on the main thread. >> There are some guidelines on this in their docs[3]. >> >> You probably want to check out ./common/view/wx_view_controls.cpp to see >> how existing input events are handled by the 2D canvases. >> I guess your new code would hook in here somewhere, and provide >> additional event handlers to manage the data from the 3D device. >> Your communication thread should be able to post wxWidgets events to the >> main thread and then we can consume them here. >> >> By the way: although the wx docs use wxThread, I think this general >> concept should work with C++ standard libraries threads just fine. >> The documentation for wxEvtHandler::QueueEvent may also be useful[4] >> >> Hope this helps! >> >> Best, >> Jon >> >> [1] https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/4951 >> [2] https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg29464.html >> [3] >> https://wiki.wxwidgets.org/Inter-Thread_and_Inter-Process_communication#Sending_events_to_the_main_thread_-_wxWidgets_3_only >> [4] >> https://docs.wxwidgets.org/3.0/classwx_evt_handler.html#acffd03bf407a856166ea71ef0318b59a >> >> >> On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 1:47 AM Markus Bonk <markus_b...@3dconnexion.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> >>> >>> I am currently investigating adding support for 3D input devices to >>> pcbnew. The plan is to use a websocket interface (boost/beast) to >>> communicate with the 3D device. Effectively the communication runs on an >>> extra thread. Somewhere the event code will need to switch to executing on >>> the main thread. >>> >>> >>> >>> One way of achieving this on say win32 might be to add functors to a >>> queue post a message to a message window handler in the main thread which >>> empties the queue and invokes the functor. >>> >>> >>> >>> Is such a mechanism already in place in KiCAD? 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