Subject:
|
Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.cad.dev
|
Date:
|
Wed, 25 Feb 2004 23:44:25 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
5487 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.cad.dev, Don Heyse wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dev, Travis Cobbs wrote:
> > In lugnet.cad.dev, Michael Lachmann wrote:
> > > Good idea, so how about
> > >
> > > [LDRAW_SEARCH]
> > > 1=SHOW <MODELDIR>
> > > 2=HIDE <LDRAWDIR>P
> > > 3=SHOW <LDRAWDIR>Parts
> > > 4=SHOW <LDRAWDIR>Models
> > > .
> > > .
> > > .
> > > 20=SHOW "C:\A special path with blanks"
> > >
> > > Keywords <MODELDIR> ... actual directory where the project/file is located
> > > <LDRAWDIR> ... what it tells us
> > > and finaly paths starting with anything different from "<" as beeing
> > > absolute paths as beeing designed for the operating system
> > >
> > > I think two keywords for predefined paths should be enough.
> >
> > It looks good to me.
Me too. I think it is a good idea with a separate section for the search directories,
it allows shorter keys than suggested in http://news.lugnet.com/cad/dev/?n=9510
However, I suggest section name [LDrawSearch] which is more in line with [LDraw].
> It works for me too. So we should check the user's home directory
> for an ldraw.ini file containing an [LDRAW_SEARCH] section, then if not
> found look in the ldraw.ini file in Windows directory.
Yes, first %USERPROFILE%\LDraw.ini, then %WINDIR%\LDraw.ini.
Perhaps we should add the possibility of an LDRAWINI env variable,
this could prove useful, both for temporarily using another setting,
and also on non-windows platforms.
In e.g. Linux, should we read $HOME/LDraw.ini ?
MacOSX ?
> For myself, because of platform portability considerations, I'll still
> check the environment variable LDRAW_SEARCH before looking for an
> ldraw.ini file. I'll separate the entries in the environment variable
> with the "|" character.
Me too.
First LDRAWSEARCH01, LDRAWSEARCH02, ...
Next LDRAWSEARCH separated with '|'.
> However, I'm undecided whether to require
> a HIDE or SHOW tag, or use only <HIDE> and make SHOW the default. Will
> anyone else be using the environment variable, and if so do you have
> a preference?
I suggest <HIDE> and <SHOW> as prefixes, <SHOW> as default if none specified.
Using < > may become useful later for other flags.
If your program doesn't understand the tag <xxx> then it can simply ignore it.
Flags as <PARTS> and <PRIMITIVES> could be used for classifying any file in a given
directory not having an "official" file type header.
(classifying is important, at least to L3P, for determining e.g. when to use seams)
Quotation marks should not be necessay if we use the < >.
Also I suggest a \ after <LDRAWDIR>: "2=<HIDE><LDRAWDIR>\P"
Unix platform should of course convert to /.
In the week end I plan to write a small library (in C) for reading the env vars and LDraw.ini's
to set up the directories. I'll also write an LDrawSetup application with a GUI for editing LDraw.ini.
All open source, if you want to save the effort yourself.
/Lars
|
|
Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths
|
| (...) I also considered suggesting [LDrawSearch] but I held back and went with the "me too". I do like [LDrawSearch] better though. (...) Sure, but use lowercase ldraw.ini please! I'm too lazy to remember to use the shift key on a case sensitive (...) (20 years ago, 26-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
| | | Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths
|
| Ok I hop on again ... "Lars C. Hassing" <sp.lars@am.hassings.dk> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:Htnz7B.G2z@lugnet.com... (...) located (...) directories, (...) (URL) However, I suggest section name [LDrawSearch] which is more in line with [LDraw]. I (...) (20 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths
|
| (...) It works for me too. So we should check the user's home directory for an ldraw.ini file containing an [LDRAW_SEARCH] section, then if not found look in the ldraw.ini file in Windows directory. For myself, because of platform portability (...) (20 years ago, 25-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
|
132 Messages in This Thread:
(Inline display suppressed due to large size. Click Dots below to view.)
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
