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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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In lugnet.cad, Allen Smith wrote:
> 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
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 ldraw.ini file may look like this:
[LDraw]
BaseDirectory=C:\Lars\LDraw
LgeoDirectory=C:\Lars\LDraw\Apps\lgeo
[LDrawSearch]
1=<MODELDIR>
2=<HIDE><DEFPRIM><LDRAWDIR>\P
3=<DEFPART><LDRAWDIR>\PARTS
4=<LDRAWDIR>\MODELS
5=<DEFPART><LDRAWDIR>\UnOff\PARTS
6=<DEFPART>C:\My Own Parts
-Orion
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Orion Pobursky wrote:
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> > What is in this file?
> >
> > Allen
>
> 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 ldraw.ini file may look like this:
> [LDraw]
> BaseDirectory=C:\Lars\LDraw
> LgeoDirectory=C:\Lars\LDraw\Apps\lgeo
> [LDrawSearch]
> 1=<MODELDIR>
> 2=<HIDE><DEFPRIM><LDRAWDIR>\P
> 3=<DEFPART><LDRAWDIR>\PARTS
> 4=<LDRAWDIR>\MODELS
> 5=<DEFPART><LDRAWDIR>\UnOff\PARTS
> 6=<DEFPART>C:\My Own Parts
>
> -Orion
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 prevent it from growing wild.
About the location, ms does barely know them selfs where to put stuff,
look at all the relocate and backwards compatible folders in Vista. it's
a mess in the root of c:\ :)
But if you decide to standardize it's location the proposed non user
specific appdata location would be the best I think.
As for Linux I believe it's the "/usr/etc" location thats mend to
contain global user level config files.
But I would not force people to store it at specific location, some
people like to keep their LDraw stuff mobile.
Maybe in the future software needs only to know the location of this ini
instead of the location of the library. And it tries first at the
'standardized default location' if it's not there it asks the user like
most software does now with the library location.
for that to work nicely the library installer should create the ini and
ask the user where to store it (but suggests the default in that dialog).
Roland
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