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Re: LPub 4 Status
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:08:55 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Allen Smith wrote:
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Kevin L. Clague wrote:
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In PLI’s, LPub displays the parts color name (from LDConfig), the part
number (yes, even on the Mac version Allan!), and the part title. Currently
I get these titles from PARTS.LST, but that is not sufficient, and it is a
short sighted implementation.
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Is PARTS.LST the file that gets generated by some DOS utility in the original
LDraw distribution? You can’t rely on that being present. Not being able to
rely on a DOS utility, Bricksmith reads the part library and generates its
own XML parts list; I assume other programs do something similar.
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As will LPub before it is made available to the public. Thus the comment about
short sighted. Now that I have an example on what to do, I’ll implement that
instead. There is one class that will have to be changed, and no one else needs
to know the difference.
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I got a Mac mini yesterday, so I’m at the bottom of the learning curve on
getting LPub going there. I know it is unix (which I know very well), but I
did not find make or the gcc tools (which I also know very well) using find.
I’m antsy to get going there. Any ideas on where to get started?
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Congratulations! This is wonderful news for Mac LDraw users. I have fielded
numerous requests asking for an instruction-generation tool in Bricksmith,
and I’ve always been ashamed to respond that there isn’t one, never will be,
and the process of doing it manually is probably too hard for them to figure
out. I eagerly anticipate being able to direct people to a real solution.
Thanks for making the capital investment to support us!
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It turns out that I get an employee discount through work, even though I don’t
work for Apple. Who could resist?
Now, if someone would make a platform independent editor, we’d be in fantastic
shape!
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As others have noted, in order to get the developer tools on your Mac, you
need to install the Xcode Tools package. It is found somewhere on your Mac OS
installer DVD. That installs the gcc toolchain, Apple’s graphical IDE, and
lots of other stuff.
Allen
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I’m grateful for all the help.
I’ve gotten LPub to build successfully, and am working on interfacing to
renderers. On vidoze I used ldglite originally on LPub 4, and all was well.
Don Heyse had added some features to ldglite to make it easier for LPub to work
with, by adding some of the L3P camera lens and positioning options, and getting
it to render offscreen. Today, the Mac version of ldglite does not have these
features.
LPub 2 supports LDView, which I hadn’t gotten around to doing with LPub 4 until
last night. Travis was nice enough to make the L3P camera command line option
changes to LDView a few years back. I’ve not got LDView and LPub 4 working well
on the Mac yet, but that will be just a matter of debug time.
I’m very excited.
Kevin
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| (...) Yeah, gotta work on that... But hey, the kids just got a macbook! And, as of yesterday, it has a sneaky ssh login just for me so I can soak up some of the idle cycles from across the living room. But...my notes on libpng for OS-X are about 5 (...) (16 years ago, 26-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| (...) Is PARTS.LST the file that gets generated by some DOS utility in the original LDraw distribution? You can't rely on that being present. Not being able to rely on a DOS utility, Bricksmith reads the part library and generates its own XML parts (...) (16 years ago, 24-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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