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Let's get Joshua to comment, but for now.... I'll put my oar in anyway. (...) That definition ("has trainwheels") matches all three of the categories cars, locos, and train sets. So I don't think that's it. I believe 3225 is the only set across ALL (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) I didn't lay out the sub-categories for the train stuff so I'm speculating here, but I'm thinkin' that prolly what Joshua meant by "train cars" was "sets where the main model has wheels that go on train tracks"...? (As opposed to sets which (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) Good question, This was one of those sites that relaunched the same window as soon as you killed it so I was so busy trying to figure out how to kill it without taking all of NS down (I had important stuff in other windows) that I didn't (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) logo images such that they can be cached). I'd also prefer to see as much space as possible made for the set image (one reason I won't be using the new looker-upper is the smaller image). (...) and (...) the (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) IIRC, there are actually 2 layers of the always-on-top property for windows in Win32 -- one which is local to the application and one in which the application itself is entirely above other applications. (I think one of these is in the (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) I know it's doable in NS because I've seen it done to me by certain obnoxious sites that I had the misfortune to visit. I don't know how, though. (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) Oya, definitely. It's partly a prototype and experiment at simpler presentation. Here's a mock-up screenshot, for example, which Suzanne made earlier this year: (URL) she's away at ToyFair in NYC this week I'll be alternating between final (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) I don't know of any way, no, but in a former life I used to do lots of Win32 GUI programming, so I'm going to bet that it's possible that there's a tool out there somewhere (something akin to WinSpy++) that would let a user choose a window and (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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To me, and to many other Model Railroaders, a train set by definition has to have a locomotive and at least one car. Track and powerpack are optional. That's a canonical MR definition. Most sets DO come with track and or a power pack but don't have (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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