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Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Wed, 3 Mar 2004 18:25:39 GMT
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"Don Heyse" <dheyse@hotmail.spam.go.away.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> In lugnet.cad.dev, Lars C. Hassing wrote:
> > The data contained in either environment variables or ini files
> > should have exactly the same format.
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> I agree, and prefer <> around all tags.
Ok, agreed too. So with have <HIDE> and optionally <SHOW> - right?
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> > > > Quotation marks should not be necessay if we use the < >.
> > >
> > > You are right but I still would allow them for the rare case of
> > > blanks at the end of a directory name.
> >
> > Trailing blanks are preserved in both env var and ini files.
> > So I still don't think quotation marks are necessary...
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> Ah, but what about leading blanks. ;^) Nevermind, I don't think you
> can create an absolute path that starts with leading blanks.
I would still like the quotation marks as an option - not a must. If a user
uses them fine, if not also fine - if there is a problem with blanks or tabs
the user can still use quotation marks.
<SNIP>
> So, how about this search strategy?
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> Windows:
> %USERPROFILE%\ldraw.ini
> %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\ldraw.ini
> %LDRAWDIR%\ldraw.ini
> %WINDIR%\ldraw.ini
That would be a perfect way I guess. MLCad also allows to let the user
specify the ldraw dir manualy in a dialog. I could imagine having this
option as an emergency solution if no ldraw dir can be found.
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> Unix:
> $HOME/.ldrawrc
> $HOME/ldraw.ini
> $LDRAWDIR/ldraw.ini
> /etc/ldraw.ini
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> Mac OS X:
> ~/Library/Preferences/org.ldraw.plist
> /Library/Preferences/org.ldraw.plist
> $LDRAWDIR/ldraw.ini (I'm not sure about this one)
no idea about Mac's but unix looks good.
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> Obviously if you don't have LDRAWDIR set by an environment variable
> you'll have to skip the step that looks in the LDRAWDIR.
Or open a dialog to ask the user for this path once, my feeling is if the
user didn't setup the variable - the user will not modify the ldraw.ini file
either - at least that is what I learned from houndreds of support requests
from MLCad users.
Michael
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