Navit patch for faster map dragging

Holger Freyther zecke at openmoko.org
Sun Aug 17 15:06:58 CEST 2008


On Sunday 17 August 2008 12:22:45 Florian Hackenberger wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'd like to submit a patch for navit, which changes the map dragging
> rendering method for the gtk interface (which is used on the Neo).
> Before the patch navit rerendered the map on each drag increment, which
> was too slow on the neo. Now it simply repositions the rendered pixmap
> and does the rendering of the map as soon as the drag is finished. In
> addition the text rendering has been improved a bit (there is still
> room for improvement though, i.e. caching rendered glyph bitmaps).
> Please find two patches attached: The patch for the navit source (as of
> SVN revision 1255) and a openembedded patch, which changes the
> buildsystem to build from SVN. For your convenience I uploaded an ipk

Fantastic, did you consider sending the patch upstream?

z.




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