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I think we, as developers, should decide a standard location for the ldraw.ini on each platform. It's simply too confusing to have many different locations. I propose: Windows: %APPDATA%\ldraw\ldraw.ini (this is where Microsoft tells you to put such (...) (15 years ago, 22-Feb-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) On my System (xp) ldraw.ini is in the windows folder, like all the other ini files. Why do you want to move it from there to somewhere else? I see that it make sense to move it to split user data from system data, but how long to we need then (...) (15 years ago, 22-Feb-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) The biggest reason is that on Vista (and I would assume subsequent Windows versions) write access is restricted to the Windows directory (among others) is restricted. Apparently Microsoft has been telling developers to use the APPDATA path for (...) (15 years ago, 22-Feb-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) A little more on this. Upon musing I feel that the Mac platform should use the .ini format and not the .plist format. -Orion (15 years ago, 22-Feb-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) What is in this file? Allen (15 years ago, 23-Feb-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: ldraw.ini location
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(...) It provides a file in a standard location for programs to look up the LDraw base path and other assorted paths including search paths. Lars summed it up quite well: The ldraw.ini file is a containing LDraw configuration information. An (...) (15 years ago, 23-Feb-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: ldraw.ini location
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Orion Pobursky wrote: <snip> (...) I didn't know about this file ether, there is no info about it on ldraw.org as far I could find. Because of this I haven't used it for LD4DStudio. But it seems very useful although some standards would be nice to (...) (15 years ago, 23-Feb-09, to lugnet.cad)
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