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Re: ldraw.ini location
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Mon, 23 Feb 2009 04:38:10 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Orion Pobursky wrote:
In lugnet.cad, Orion Pobursky wrote:
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 things as INI files)

Mac:
$HOME/Library/Preferences/org.ldraw.plist
(preferred since root access is not required)

Linux:
No clue as I don't have a Linux box to play with.

A little more on this.  Upon musing I feel that the Mac platform should use the
.ini format and not the .plist format.

-Orion

What is in this file?

Allen



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  Re: ldraw.ini location
 
(...) 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
 
(...) 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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