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Announcements / 1756

		* LDView Version 1.9.7 Released *
LDView version 1.9.7 is now available, in both source and binary forms. You can download either from: (URL) highlights of version 1.9.7 include: QT-based Linux version Fly-through mode Replaced the progress panel with a status bar There are numerous (...) (22 years ago, 10-Sep-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad)

		Re: * LDView Version 1.9.7 Released *
(...) Ultra-cool! I'm jealous of the flythrough. Here's a few quick notes. On Windows it seemed to look for the help.html file in the root directory on C: and couldn't find it in the same directory as the executable. Put the current (...) (22 years ago, 10-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad)

		Re: * LDView Version 1.9.7 Released *
(...) I'm glad you like it. I thought you had fly-through basically implemented in your test version, though. I'm still undecided on the mouse tracking. I think the way I did it works fine, but it's not at all what people from FPS games are used to. (...) (22 years ago, 10-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad)

		Re: * LDView Version 1.9.7 Released *
(...) Windows 2000. But I ran it from a DOS window. CD to the ldview.197 directory and run ldview something.ldr. This might give a different argv[0] than clicking in the Explorer. Don (22 years ago, 10-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad)

		Re: * LDView Version 1.9.7 Released *
(...) OK, great. Thanks for the info. That should be easy enough to test and fix. --Travis (22 years ago, 10-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad)

		Re: * LDView Version 1.9.7 Released *
(...) I thought I'd let you know that the problem, on my machine, with the sphere primitives turning grey is fixed with this release. One bug report: The preferences menu does not close when the X button in the top corner is clicked. It only closes (...) (22 years ago, 11-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad)

		Re: * LDView Version 1.9.7 Released *
(...) That's great to hear. Since I never experienced that bug, I can't be completely sure what caused it, but I'd have to guess it was related to the progress panel if this is the first release that fixes the problem. (...) Hey, will you look at (...) (22 years ago, 11-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad)

		Re: * LDView Version 1.9.7 Released *
(...) Cool. Thanks. I downloaded the Linux/x86 binary to what I believe is a Red Hat 7.3 system (might be 7.2 though), to test it. Even though the "File" -> "LDraw Dir" menu shows the correct directory, LDView claims that it is unable to find the (...) (22 years ago, 11-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad)

		Re: * LDView Version 1.9.7 Released *
(...) Thanks for the report. My first guess is that this is caused by a case-sensitive filesystem, and the files have a different case than what the model specifies. All my testing at home was done using an LDraw install on my Windows drive that I (...) (22 years ago, 11-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad)

		Re: * LDView Version 1.9.7 Released *
(...) Maybe 'Next' and 'Previous' cycle through all defined settings? Thanks for a great program! (Will test it on my Linux box soon!) ROSCO (22 years ago, 11-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad)

		Re: * LDView Version 1.9.7 Released *
(...) I'm not sure if this helps, but you could borrow the code from ldglite for case sensitive filenames. Or at least examine it for ideas. It also has hooks for MacOS which you should think about since there's a Mac version of LDView now, right? (...) (22 years ago, 12-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad)

		Re: * LDView Version 1.9.7 Released *
(...) I jumped the gun with this one. I'm still having the grey sphere problem on my desktop machine (my laptop dosen't have this error though) -Orion (22 years ago, 12-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad)

		Re: * LDView Version 1.9.7 Released *
(...) I have put a test version of the LDView Linux executable in the following location: (URL) executable supports arbitrary case in filenames on case-sensitive file systems. It does seem to load files much faster if the LDraw directories are made (...) (22 years ago, 12-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad)

		Re: * LDView Version 1.9.7 Released *
(...) The files are located on case-sensitive file systems (that's all I have - except for some floppies), but the file names used in the files match the names on the disk (maybe except for some stuff in "p/"). I use all lower case for the LDraw (...) (22 years ago, 12-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad)

		Re: * LDView Version 1.9.7 Released *
(...) My LDraw code used "P/" and "PARTS/" when looking for parts and primitives, so those had to be upper case in order to work. I think everything else generally needed to be lower case. The new test version I posted a link to in the other message (...) (22 years ago, 12-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad)

		Re: * LDView Version 1.9.7 Released *
"Travis Cobbs" <tcobbs@REMOVE.halibut.com> skrev i meddelandet news:H2C447.5uL@lugnet.com... (...) Right (...) starts (...) directory (...) Suggestions: Do a one-time scan of the LDRAW directory, and build a translation table in memory between your (...) (22 years ago, 12-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad)

		Re: * LDView Version 1.9.7 Released *
(...) Play well, Jacob (22 years ago, 13-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad)

		Re: * LDView Version 1.9.7 Released *
(...) That's a good idea, but since LDView caches files after reading them, it will only ever check for any particular file once. So I don't think this will help. It might help, though, since I would essentiall scan the entire LDraw parts directory (...) (22 years ago, 16-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad)

		Re: * LDView Version 1.9.7 Released *
"Travis Cobbs" <tcobbs@REMOVE.halibut.com> skrev i meddelandet news:H2JHFL.J55@lugnet.com... (...) So use the possibilities of the unix file system to your advantage - the first time you find a file the hard way, create a _link_ to it, with your (...) (22 years ago, 16-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad)

		Handling of file name case in LDView (Was: * LDView Version 1.9.7 Released *)
(...) Then that link should be from a directory under the user's home directory. On my systems it is "root" who owns the LDraw parts library files, and the other users can only read them. (...) That depends on the file system, but it is generally a (...) (22 years ago, 17-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad)