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Willy Tschager wrote:
> In lugnet.cad, Anders Isaksson wrote:
> > Have you noted any obvious bugs or crashes?
>
> nope 'til now.
Good.
> say I wanna make some changes to a couple of tripples. I fire up
> SyncEdit and change the first tripple. hang on! does it look right?
> instead of just coping the current content of SyncEdit (containing my
> changes) back to LDDP I have to hit "OK" which will close the prog
> :-( to do the rest I have to start up SyncEdit again: right click,
> move to Plugins, move to SyncEdit ... select the line ... change the
> tripple.
> last but not least. when I start up SyncEdit I cannot make any
> modifications in LDDP. I wish I could just jump from the plugin to
> the prog and back at my will, with every change copied automatically
> to the prog or the plugin. basically it is an extention of the
> request above.
That's a problem with (or rather limitation in) the LDDP plugin interface.
Plugins are expected to do *one* thing, and then return to LDDP. I don't
know anything about the LDDP source, who's maintaining it, etc.
> couldn't you code in something like LDView's "Always on top" and a
> copy button?
No. A plugin doesn't have access to any of the LDDP settings, doesn't know
the path to LDView, doesn't know the name of the (temporary?) file LDDP is
editing, and so on. I would have to duplicate all the code to find LDView,
start a separate copy of it on a temporary file etc. Too much work :-(
> I'd also like to see a tolerance box. you enter 0.005 and SyncEdit
> not only marks -3.085 0 6.234 in the first two lines but also the
> -3.085 0 6.239 in the third (in a different color?)
Shouldn't be too difficult. No promises about when, though...
> as you already have figured out I'm a lazy guy. selecting the line
> and then hitting two times the "next" button just to hop to the last
> tripple are two clicks too much. how about selecting the tripple
> right away?
Shouldn't be too difficult. No promises about when, though...
> please give me also the possibility to change all red into blue. you
> know substituting the color code 4 with color 1, gold (383) instead
> of main color (16).
That would be another plugin - ReplaceColors (it's not written yet), or
rather directly built into LDDP.
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Anders Isaksson, Sweden
BlockCAD: http://web.telia.com/~u16122508/proglego.htm
Gallery: http://web.telia.com/~u16122508/gallery/index.htm
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In lugnet.cad, Anders Isaksson wrote:
> Willy Tschager wrote:
> >
> > say I wanna make some changes to a couple of tripples. I fire up
> > SyncEdit and change the first tripple. hang on! does it look right?
> > instead of just coping the current content of SyncEdit (containing my
> > changes) back to LDDP I have to hit "OK" which will close the prog
> > :-( to do the rest I have to start up SyncEdit again: right click,
> > move to Plugins, move to SyncEdit ... select the line ... change the
> > tripple.
>
> > last but not least. when I start up SyncEdit I cannot make any
> > modifications in LDDP. I wish I could just jump from the plugin to
> > the prog and back at my will, with every change copied automatically
> > to the prog or the plugin. basically it is an extention of the
> > request above.
>
> That's a problem with (or rather limitation in) the LDDP plugin interface.
> Plugins are expected to do *one* thing, and then return to LDDP. I don't
> know anything about the LDDP source, who's maintaining it, etc.
check out:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/lddp/
orion has taken over the project from carsten schmitz, who still figures as one
of the admins, but it's mr. "redoctober" who works the queue of my wild dreams:
http://www.holly-wood.it/wishlist-lddp.html
(I think the list dates back to version 1.56 so you may see some of the requests
already as part of LDDP)
> > please give me also the possibility to change all red into blue. you
> > know substituting the color code 4 with color 1, gold (383) instead
> > of main color (16).
>
> That would be another plugin - ReplaceColors (it's not written yet), or
> rather directly built into LDDP.
you're right but the side effect would be that I finally get all the lines with
the same color highlighted. I usually mark the different portions of a part with
different colors and sometimes they are spread all over the code and it gets
hard to spot them without a highlight.
w.
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Willy Tschager wrote:
>
> check out:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/lddp/
Yes, of course! I got the plugin spec from there. The problem for me is that
LDDP is written in Delphi 6 and I only have version 5 at home (D2006 at
work). Also, I'm not sure the sources are complete - if I try to open the
LDDP project in D5 I get *lots* of messages about things that are missing,
not only the obvious differences between D6 and D5 but also a lot of
unobvious things so I gave up trying to do anything with the LDDP source :-(
> you're right but the side effect would be that I finally get all the
> lines with the same color highlighted.
But you wouldn't have any use for the highlighting unless the plugin is also
changed into a full-blown editor :-(
This definitely should be implemented inside LDDP, not as a plugin (unless
LDDP gets a richer plugin interface which makes it possible to write 'live'
plugins, as we discussed in the other posts).
--
Anders Isaksson, Sweden
BlockCAD: http://web.telia.com/~u16122508/proglego.htm
Gallery: http://web.telia.com/~u16122508/gallery/index.htm
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