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Re: In dev: new ldconfig.ldr file
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Date: 
Mon, 9 Aug 2004 20:10:09 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Travis Cobbs wrote:
However, it seems to me that making all the edges black should be up to the
software program (under user control), not the default color definition
list. It's trivial for a program to make all the edges black (and not much
harder to let the user choose what color to make them), but if the official
color list says they should be black, there's no way to go back the other
way.

True.  Except the current ldconfig.ldr file doesn't specify all edge colors as
black.  Many of them use color 0 (which is defined as RGB(33,33,33)), some of
them specify #000000, some of them use other colors.

So, my vote would be to go back to colored (excuse me, coloured) edges in
the ldconfig.ldr, and NOT have an official (even alternate) file with black
edges.

Hmm, somebody want to setup a poll on this?

While the various suggestions for alternate files make sense, they seem
leave out one major issue:  ldraw.org doesn't touch the ldraw.ini file;
that's purely up to various software programs.  So while it could
distribute the alternate file, and proclaim the correct handling via
ldraw.ini, it can't really distribute an ldraw.ini, since that file by
definition contains local-machine-specific data.

True.  We'd probably load up a web page with links to the various files, and
maybe a script that lists them.

Steve



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  Re: In dev: new ldconfig.ldr file
 
(...) I never saw any of those discussions, and I pretty much kept silent about the original ldconfig.ldr file, because I never really gave the edge colors much thought. However, it seems to me that making all the edges black should be up to the (...) (20 years ago, 9-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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