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Re: BFC Tool?
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lugnet.cad
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Sat, 6 Sep 2008 16:30:01 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Philippe Hurbain wrote:
> > If you want to get REALLY tricky, download and install Florian Balmer's Notepad2
> > application, which can take a line on the command line to move to. (if you do
> > this, use something like 'c:\windows\system32\notepad2.exe /g %d %f' (without
> > the quotes, naturally) as your Editor Command in the Preferences box). That
> > would fire up notepad2 on the file and position the cursor on the relevant line
> > number. (%d is replaced by the line number, %f by the file name, when the editor
> > is executed).
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> Very nice!!! I love the possibility to select an element in 3D view (I miss that
> A LOT in MLCad!).
Thanks, Philo; you're doing some of the cutting edge toolmaking for LDRAW these
days, so I appreciate the nice comments from you (as will the author).
> But I seem to have some issue launching an editor, it doesn't seem to work when
> there are spaces in editor path or LDraw file path.
I see that as a problem now too ["mumble, mumble, you tell them it's a Tech
Preview, and they ask for fixes anyway *cough* where was I?.." :-D]; though I
had problems with the editor on a space-path more than the parts.
I tried using quotes around the executable specification, as you'd expect to do
with the Windows Run... command; that launches the executable for me, but then
the supplied filename is pretty munged. I will have a look at fixing that
issue.
In the meantime, I suggest using the ugly MS "old-style" 8.3 names for your path
elements in the command-line you specify in the preferences to get around the
problem.
I had notepad2 in a C:\Notepad2 directory; as my test I renamed to "c:\notepad
dir". I was able to get the proper launch by specifying
c:\notepa~1\notepad2.exe as the executable in Foundry.
You can find the 8.3 version of a filename by using /X with the DIR command in a
command prompt.
As for the path, I tried placing a test .DAT in a "space dir" directory, and was
able to launch notepad2 against that file from Foundry (I loaded up the .dat in
the space dir directory, right-clicked at the "root" in the tree in Foundry, and
chose Edit; and notepad2 launched with the .DAT loaded).
I will keep an eye on this issue. We are old-time programmers here, and we
don't particularly subscribe to the filenaming issues that are MS's horse poo;
and will do our best to work around those issues.
> > This IS a Technology Preview, and has an expiration of January 1, 2009;
> > hopefully we'll have time to add to it and get new versions out before then.
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> A VERY promising preview !!!
Thanks. I hope we get time to work on it more soon.
-- joshua
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| (...) What, like the ones that have existed pretty much forever on Unix? :) I will also point out (in case it catches anyone out) that it is possible for something to NOT have a 8.3 filename, but on most systems, this won't be a problem. (16 years ago, 7-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
| | | Re: BFC Tool?
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| (...) Yeah... sorry for that ;o) I hesitated before posting this comment, but... (...) I had problem with both. I'll try your DOS trick in the meantime! Philo (16 years ago, 7-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) Very nice!!! I love the possibility to select an element in 3D view (I miss that A LOT in MLCad!). But I seem to have some issue launching an editor, it doesn't seem to work when there are spaces in editor path or LDraw file path. (...) A VERY (...) (16 years ago, 6-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad)
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