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Re: LDView 3.1 on Mac OS X!
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Tue, 27 Feb 2007 02:15:41 GMT
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I’m delighted to see another developer supporting the Macintosh.

  
  
   I’m glad that Bricksmith can make use of them. Does it have a UI to add new directories to the part search path?

Nope, so I had feared it might not be able to access them. However, I’ve checked and Unofficial is hard-coded as the unofficial parts directory name (in Source/Other/MacLDraw.h, for those following along at home). You can set the LDraw directory, of course, so it will just look for an “Unofficial” directory within that.

Interesting. I wonder if it was just a coincidence that we both chose the same hard-coded directory for Unofficial parts, or if Bricksmith’s author saw that I had used it. I suspect the former, since LDView didn’t work on the Mac.


Yeah, LDraw/Unofficial just seemed like the logical choice. That was feature that went nowhere, though. I never even documented it, because I didn’t think anyone else supported it. (L3P?) I really wish LDraw would define a standard Unofficial parts folder. Right now I just set the Finder’s label color to red for any unofficial parts and then blithely dump them in my LDraw folder.

Allen



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  Unofficial directory (with non-standard name lenght)? (Was: LDView 3.1 on Mac OS X!)
 
(...) So far, we have maintained the old DOS convention of max. 8 chars and no SPACE used in folder names. I realize that fewer and fewer programs and utils are made in DOS evironments, maybe I'm the only to still make quick 'n' dirty programs in (...) (18 years ago, 28-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
  Re: LDView 3.1 on Mac OS X!
 
(...) Well the other thing to consider is that with the adoption of the standard header on DAT files, there really is no *need* to store unofficial files in a different sub-directory, because programs will be able to tell which files are unofficial (...) (18 years ago, 1-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)

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  Re: LDView 3.1 on Mac OS X!
 
(...) I took a look at the QChar docs in both QT 3 and QT 4, and updated the failing line of code to call the unicode() function on the QChar object. This builds fine in QT 3, and should also build fine in QT 4. I haven't had a chance yet to see if (...) (18 years ago, 20-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)

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