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(...) These two pages discuss everything you could want to know. (URL) preferences format: The most common preference file format is an xml file with the file extension ".plist" with this DTD: (URL) propose the code to be: <key>LDRAWDIR</key> (...) (21 years ago, 7-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Well, the transparency in PNG files really is just an alpha channel. It might not be called that, but it's 8 bit just like your standard alpha channel in TIFF and others. For whatever reason, Photoshop treats it as transparency while treating (...) (21 years ago, 7-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) That's a reasonable goal. We made some similar progress recently in Windows with the ldraw.ini file. So, where is the Library/Preferences/* usage documented. I don't know anything about it. Could you point me to a document like qa1067.html (...) (21 years ago, 7-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) LOL, I guess so. James (21 years ago, 6-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Dang. So already there has to be 2 locations: ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist, and Library/Preferences/*pref name* That is ok. What if we all agree that if our app changes the ldraw directory, it will change it in both places? Same with the (...) (21 years ago, 6-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Does this mean that my little invention, the LDRAWDIR environment string, is spread to Macs, too? Sorry for the intrusion, but this is a true ego trip, my little "child" is found in so many system settings of computers all over the world. I (...) (21 years ago, 6-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) The latest version of ldglite will come with a script to update the ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist file with the LDRAWDIR setting. See here for details. (URL) you want to test the script before the release, I'm sure Tom could email you the (...) (21 years ago, 6-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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So I have been thinking a user should only have to edit the LDraw folder location once, in one app, and all other apps should use the same location. This is similar to com.apple.internetconfig.plist, where the system internet settings for mail, (...) (21 years ago, 6-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Yeah. I wrote the webpage because I needed an alpha channel. Mainly, Mac OS X's window server uses alpha channels to calculate transparencies, so if I wanted to add a background to the image, but not the entire image, I had to use alpha (...) (21 years ago, 6-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I *believe* (and don't quote me on this) ;-) ... that what we did was move over usernames, but will require you to reset your password. This was a technical/security issue. Try to reset your password through the system, if that doesn't work, (...) (21 years ago, 6-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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