We generally add some jitter to the raytracing lines in order to smooth
out over multiple iterations some of the imperfections. However, when
we do this to an orthographic projection (where all lines are parallel
to start, we don't average and just introduce noticeable noise in the
render
Fixes https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/issues/8863
Glew has the problem that it has to be selected at build time if GLX or
EGL is supported by the library, and this in not encoded in the library
name, nor ABI, nor anything.
Then it's easy to get into the situation that a binary is built but
cannot run because glew supports an API different from the one used by
wxWidgets, or the binary fails to link in the end after all objects are
compiled.
epoxy can support both with the same library avoiding this problem.
epoxy is not initialized explicitly, replaced initialization with
version check where one was not done already.
It seems to be available as vcpkg https://vcpkg.link/ports/libepoxy
There are problems related to GL context switching on Windows which does
not seem to be used in kicad
https://github.com/anholt/libepoxy#known-issues-when-running-on-windows
There is also a problem related to multithreaded rendering on Windows
https://github.com/anholt/libepoxy/pull/265 It's harder to tell if
threading is used for rendering but it does not look like kicad is doing
anything complex enough to warrant using multiple rendering threads.
Fixes https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/20630
Fixes https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/12543
Now that we are threading things in different frames, we need to watch
that we are not waiting for a process to complete in one frame while
working in another. To accomplish this, we only wait for our own loop
results
Fixes https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/20572
Having thread pool as its own singleton in the library meant that each
kiface had its own threadpool, leading to many multiples of the threads
being started. Placing a singleton class in PGM_BASE ensures that all
kifaces use the same thread pool.
The singleton class can be extended to provide single instance
guarantee for any element across kifaces
Recommendation is to avoid using the year nomenclature as this
information is already encoded in the git repo. Avoids needing to
repeatly update.
Also updates AUTHORS.txt from current repo with contributor names
Schematics, symbols, boards and footprints all get the ability to store
files inside their file structures. File lookups now have a
kicad-embed:// URI to allow various parts of KiCad to refer to files
stored in this manner.
kicad-embed://datasheet.pdf references the file named "datasheet.pdf"
embedded in the document. Embeds are allowed in schematics, boards,
symbols and footprints. Currently supported embeddings are Datasheets,
3D Models and drawingsheets
Fixes https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/6918
Fixes https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/2376
Fixes https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/17827
Most of these settings are now available in the appearances panel.
It was concluded in a Zulip discussion that any missing items can
be added back in time if people find they need them (ie: complain).
Also hooks up 3DViewer to the common language framework.