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(...) Probably. As I was reading the thread it was *loading* the MPD file that was considered two-pass, and my algorithm is definitely only one-pass for that (and no extra fixups after reading it all). OTOH, if the file should be rendered on screen (...) (18 years ago, 27-Jul-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Don't know about that, source-wise (all my work projects are still Delphi, Win32 only). In .NET you definitely don't have to care about the language an assembly was written in, you just use it. (...) If that is your work development system, I (...) (18 years ago, 27-Jul-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I suspect there's two definitions of "pass" at work here. I would consider a two pass algorithm to be anything requiring two loops (which we must have either way as their is no reference order specified in MPDs). Another way of considering it (...) (18 years ago, 27-Jul-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Actually I can't get my head around 'searching for a file in the cache' as equivalent to 'do a second pass of the source file'. Every part is searched for in the cache. Each source line is only read and parsed once. What am I not (...) (18 years ago, 26-Jul-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Yup it was taken with v2.1. That was the same site I went to, however a small oversight by myself forgot to click the link and go to the proper page for download. Now I feel stupid. Oh well... But I was able to download v3.0 and it works great now! (...) (18 years ago, 27-Jul-06, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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(...) Thanks Willy, and congratulations to the new committee members, I look forward to working with you all. (...) ROSCO (18 years ago, 27-Jul-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Delphi 2005 (9) is part of Borland Developer Studio (BDS) 2005. It also contains C# Builder and Delphi for .net compilers. But I mainly use Delphi for win 32 development. Since BDS 2006 C++ Builder is also included in the suite. But I decided (...) (18 years ago, 26-Jul-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Is Delphi 2005 Delphi (Pascal) only? I've got BDS2006 at work and that contains both Delphi and C++ and C#. Going .NET would make it easy (?) to use a C++ library from Delphi, I think. (18 years ago, 26-Jul-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I would also like to see a flower shortcut with the flowers in reverse (thin diameter of the flower down, large diameter on top). Thats the way i make my flowers. Regards, Ludo (...) (18 years ago, 26-Jul-06, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Thanks for the pointers, I'm working with Delphi 2005 Pro win32 at the moment (LD4DModeler was written in Delphi 6 Pro). So I can't use you're library. But I will certainly take a look at it. I sometimes write stuff in C++, but for a living (...) (18 years ago, 26-Jul-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Lars C. Hassing wrote: [snip detailed explanation] Thanks for the insight of you're L3P ldraw reader routines. (...) If you mean by public, public to all children and not the whole world, this fits perfectly in Anders Isaksson vision. See my reply (...) (18 years ago, 26-Jul-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) This is actually very logical. And it fits in the description from the 2000 post pointed to by Lars. So all objects in the mpd are available for recursive children of the main part, being the first place to search. (...) I don't think stuff in (...) (18 years ago, 26-Jul-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) First off, I'm guessing the picture was taken with LDView 2.1, since you don't have 3.0. Obviously it's got problems; I have no way of knowing for sure if those problems are present in LDView 3.0, but it does have completely rewritten file (...) (18 years ago, 26-Jul-06, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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Thanks for the tips and help. I opened the file with LDView last night and the road/sidewalk/stopli...posts(they are all part of one file) file couldn't be opened. It gave me an error with the line specifying that file. Since I had exported all the (...) (18 years ago, 26-Jul-06, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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(...) archives? (Are there list archives?) I remember that the list archives of some LDraw-based mailing list were public and contained the email addresses of the people sending messages to the list. That's a sure recipe for lots of spam. --Travis (18 years ago, 26-Jul-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) That is a two pass algorithm. It's optimised by only searching files that have already appeared but the search in stage II is a second pass. Tim (18 years ago, 26-Jul-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) What about the following algorithm (assuming everything is cached): - whenever a file reference is read, search for the file in the cache. if not found, add it as an empty file and flag it as 'incomplete' - whenever a 'file' is seen, search (...) (18 years ago, 26-Jul-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) If others agree that this is worth keeping, I'll change my hold vote. (...) I changed my hold vote for this part (I do think it isn't really needed but a hold vote is too harsh). (18 years ago, 26-Jul-06, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) It seems to me that an MPD is functionally equal to a disk folder which has been added to the (beginning of the) search path for parts. No more, no less. If a part is found in the search path it is used, if it is not found it is ignored (with (...) (18 years ago, 26-Jul-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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hi folks, flicking through he list of held parts at the PT I came across this part: (URL) with peeron (URL) or Bricklink (URL) doesn't say anything about a pattern. I really would like to see this part ripped from the PT (also because the author is (...) (18 years ago, 26-Jul-06, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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