This is a fairly standard CAD feature; it conveys the same
information and has the same recovery path, without erroring out,
so seems like an obvious win.
Before this commit, updates to the bitmap font in the graphics window
cause missing characters in the text window and vice versa. This is
because BitmapFont contains a texture that's mutated, and sharing it
would also require sharing display lists between GL contexts, which
is not done (and overly complicated for this case anyway).
Before this commit, dragging a new rect would result in one
of the lines lagging behind, because it is drawn in the middle
of regeneration. After this commit, the rectangle stays rectangular.
For a reason I do not understand, this only fixes Win32; GTK
continues to exhibit the bug, whereas Cocoa has never exhibited it
but the render latency seems to have lowered slightly.
It's a deprecated platform that has weird OpenGL-related bugs and
is incompatible with using EGL anyway. It was clear we're going
to drop it, the only question was when. Answer: now.
Before this commit, when an entity is clicked at or dragged, and it
shares a place with other entities, which of them is selected is
decided more or less at random. This is particularly annoying when
dragging.
After this commit, when clicking, an entity from the current group
is given preference, and when dragging, an entity from a request
is given preference. This allows e.g. dragging points of a sketch
even when an extrusion of that sketch is active.
Before this commit, it was possible to add some redundant constraints
(e.g. vertical, horizontal or midpoint) without failing the sketch,
because SolveBySubstitution() removed the redundant equations.
However, this could result in the solve failing later because
the system didn't converge, without any pointers as to the true
cause of the failure.
After this commit, any transparent triangles are drawn last, which
causes them to not clobber the depth buffer, and so if they overlap
some opaque triangles, then these opaque triangles will be visible.
There are still issues with overlapping transparent triangles,
and with transparent triangles overlapping outlines and entities.
whitequark
EvilSpirit
AppSoft4
Elvira Khabirova