OMEdit Forces Discrete GPU on Mac

[Adam Dershowitz]

On a Mac, such as a Macbook Pro, that has a low power, embedded GPU, and a discrete GPU, running OMEdit, forces the OS to switch to the discrete GPU. So, just keeping OMEdit opened is a large power drain.
This is not just due to using qt4, as other Macport applications that use qt4, do not force this switch to the high performance GPU.

[Adeel Asghar]

This should be fixed in bb69d0d/OMEdit.
Try that and let me know.

[Adam Dershowitz]

I just rebuilt it (1.12.0~dev-470-g2dd6af7_0 is there an easy place to match up these version numbers to know which build includes which change sets?)
Now, when I open OMEdit, it doesn't switch on startup, like it used to.
But, as soon as I open any model, even if I set the default view to text, it switches to the discrete GPU. So, it seems that it still wants to create a 3d view for viewing any model.

[Adeel Asghar]

In the OMEdit About window you can see the version hashs and then can match them to the hash of submodules here ​https://github.com/OpenModelica/OpenModelica

I think now I have fixed it completely 62f7633/OMEdit.

[Adam Dershowitz]

Yes, it seems to be fixed. It does switch to the discrete GPU, when I simulate with animation, which makes sense. Otherwise, it doesn't.

Thanks