Re: [Inkscape-devel] Xara and Inkscape comparison on Linux ActionShow

On 1/25/07, MenTaLguY <mental@...3...> wrote:

One thing we will need to be aware of, though, is that the render-only-the-displayed-portion-of-the-path optimizations apply only to NRArenaShape, not SPCanvasBPath (which is currently what we have to use for "annotations" like nodes and these hypothetical outlines). Kind of a shame since the two classes do essentially the same thing, and one of the reasons I think the canvas code needs to have the two layers unified somehow.

Are you sure? This optimization was added by knutux into livarot's Path class, and SPCanvasBPath does use Path for rendering. So it either works now, or should not be too difficult to enable.