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Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths
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lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad.dev
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Date:
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Mon, 1 Mar 2004 18:39:15 GMT
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> In lugnet.cad.dev.mac, James Reynolds wrote:
> > One other thing. Environment variables work too, but only serious
> > Unixy Mac OS X people actually modify them--that is, some developers,
> > but no one else. Normal users would even know what they are. Heck,
> > even I don't modify mine. For my l3p and ldglite launcher apps, I
> > grab
> > the ldrawdir from the prefs, then I modify the environment variable
> > before it is launched. But the variable is wiped out once the app is
> > quit.
>
> Actually Environment variables work pretty well on OS X because they've
> set up a standard place to put them, and it's one of those plist files.
> See here for details.
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> http://ldglite.sourceforge.net/osxinstall.html
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> It would be nice though to have a standard fallback location for the
> LDRAWDIR and LDRAWSEARCH paths. Somewhere generic like:
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> /Library/Preferences/org.ldraw.mac.plist
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> or
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> ~/Library/Preferences/org.ldraw.mac.plist
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> I'll have to go back and see what we said about it over the summer.
Oh. I didn't know it was as easy as:
~/MacOSX/environment.plist
I guess that is one route.
In Cocoa, which is what Andrew and I are both developing in now, it is
really easy to grab prefs that have a unique name for the application.
It isn't too much harder to look somewhere else. But I am assuming
Andrew was like me and just took the easier road and grabbed the prefs
that had the application's unique name. This was the code I was going
to write. We can use ~/MacOSX/environment.plist as easily as anything
else. We just have to decide what to do.
I'm starting to spend my free time on LDraw stuff again, so maybe I
will finally write it.
--
James Reynolds
http://www.cc.utah.edu/~jer29950
james@magnusviri.com - james@scl.utah.edu
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