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Re: Renderers that poll for changes?
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lugnet.cad
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Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:17:24 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Tore Eriksson writes:
> As I am trying to learn some Delphi, I thought that creating a program
> like Anders Isaksson's LDS Shell would be nice to practice. Not that
> there is anything wrong with LDS Shell, but I have to start somewhere. I
> am calling my project "LDS Launcher" and so far, I've made a first
> working beta-version. Of course, I am not able to insert a renderer in
> it, and the editor (TMemo) is as simple as Notepad.
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> Besides my limited programming skills, I think it's better to use one
> (ore more) external viewer(s) instead of making a built-in. But a
> nescessary feature is that the renderer polls for changes in the .DAT
> file. As I am on holiday at my parents and my 486 only has Win 3.1 (and
> Delphi v 1) , I want to know what viewers poll for changes. And among
> those, what viewers are capable of making quiet poll?
Good luck finding a polling viewer that works in Win 3.1! In occasional
moments of insanity I've considered building a version of ldglite for
DOS with the djgpp compiler and Scitech MGL, but then I come to my senses
and remember that LDRAW and LEDIT already work quite well in DOS.
I don't think LDRAW will do the quiet polling in Win 3.1 that you want
though.
Why not upgrade the 486 to Win95? I use it on my ancient 486 laptop and
it works pretty well.
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| (...) With 420 Mb hard disk and 16 Mb RAM, it's no upgrade at all. (RAM not even upgradeable). I prefer a fast 486 with Win 3.1 before a slow one with Win95. I have no hope of finding a polling viewer that works in Win 3.1. I want to know what (...) (24 years ago, 27-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| As I am trying to learn some Delphi, I thought that creating a program like Anders Isaksson's LDS Shell would be nice to practice. Not that there is anything wrong with LDS Shell, but I have to start somewhere. I am calling my project "LDS Launcher" (...) (24 years ago, 26-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad)
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