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(...) Hey, txt2dat is cool! It looks like it should build on the Mac, too, so I'm puttering with rewriting the Makefile to make that happen. (The triangle library builds fine with the -DLINUX switch turned off.) It's part of my new crusade to get (...) (18 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Sure, but as I said, you can't be 100% certain that the contents of the standard LDraw directory are all official and vice versa, so the best way to manage them (in my opinion) is lump them all together, and have a program that helps you (...) (18 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Unofficial directory (with non-standard name lenght)? (Was: LDView 3.1 on Mac OS X!)
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(...) The only character either Linux or Mac OS X is allergic to is '/'. Spaces are perfectly acceptable under both. One need only take care that any paths fed to the shell are properly escaped. Ideally anybody writing shell scripts or system() (...) (18 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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It's me the user that wants to know which unofficial parts I've downloaded and am using, and thus which may require updating, deleting, or something. For me it is purely a user-management issue. My program doesn't really care if a part is Official (...) (18 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Unofficial directory (with non-standard name lenght)? (Was: LDView 3.1 on Mac OS X!)
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(...) With tongue slightly in cheek, I believe it is time to accept the technological advancements of 1984. If DOS wasn't obsolete the day it was written, it definitely was within a few years. DOS filenames tend to be inscrutable, and there just (...) (18 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Another excellent idea. You'll have the option to use the paper color for transparent pixels, and then you can set the paper color to anything you want (including 16). I'm tempted to throw it in right now, but I've actually just started (...) (18 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Thanks for pointing this out, I just realised (URL) txt2dat> does not include any header at all. I'd better fix that :) ROSCO (18 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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You might consider adding an option to use color 16 (or perhaps the "paper" color) for fully transparent pixels in uploaded PNG files. --Travis (18 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Announcing Bitsticker
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(...) No sooner said than done! Thank you for the suggestion. I figured it would be good to wind the polygons consistently but I didn't think to declare it with BFC. Doing so is clearly beneficial. Jim (18 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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You might want to add the following two lines to the tops of your generated files: 0 UNOFFICIAL PART 0 BFC CERTIFY CW Adding the above two lines will enable BFC processing. The first line is needed because most models don't contain a 0 BFC CERTIFY (...) (18 years ago, 1-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LDView 3.1 on Mac OS X!
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(...) 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 3.2 on Mac OS X with Qt 3.3.7 status report
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I've tried a little (without success) to get QT4 to build as a universal static library. If I get that working, I'll see if I can't work out the QT4-specific bugs. While the border and extra space on top aren't good in the QT4 version, the overall (...) (18 years ago, 1-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Unofficial directory (with non-standard name lenght)? (Was: LDView 3.1 on Mac OS X!)
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(...) First of all, I agree that we should avoid using space in filenames for all official stuff. It's just too problematic. However, that's not a reason to forbid the use of long filenames in general. The thing is, any program that doesn't support (...) (18 years ago, 1-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Request for votes in LDraw polls
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Hi all, As some of you know (and perhaps some do not) LDraw conducts various polls, both for official reasons (such as elections and Constitutional changes) and for contests (such as model of the month, part of the month etc.). Unfortunately the (...) (18 years ago, 1-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce) !
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(...) That is pretty clever, by the way. It reminds me of grayscale on graphing calculators (like (URL) or (URL) this>). That gives me a silly idea. LDraw on a TI-92. (...) Cool! That is a great application for it. Let me know how it goes. Jim (18 years ago, 1-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) That is very cool. I'm even going to spotlight it to get it above my post about getting pretty things on the NXT... ;-) Actually, if I upload the graphics I used on the NXT to your script I can make them appear on the display screen of Philo's (...) (18 years ago, 1-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Testing long filenames was Re: Unofficial directory (with non-standard name lenght)?
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(...) And sorry to reply to myself... Could people using older operating systems test this? I'm happy to maintain the status quo if there are problems but if no-one finds problems then I think we make the majority suffer for something that isn't (...) (18 years ago, 1-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: Unofficial directory (with non-standard name lenght)? (Was: LDView 3.1 on Mac OS X!)
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(...) I'm not sure about 98 and its ilk but I've never had any problems with long filenames in XP for l3p (and possible other command lines although I can't remember any off hand). I would certainly recommend against using spaces in filenames as (...) (18 years ago, 1-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: LDView 3.2 on Mac OS X with Qt 3.3.7 status report
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(...) I think I forgot to mention that using Qt 3 also restored "polling" mode, which broke with Qt 4. Jim (18 years ago, 1-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Unofficial directory (with non-standard name lenght)? (Was: LDView 3.1 on Mac OS X!)
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(...) It it really so? We still use renderers and utilities that have command line inputs, and I don't know but I have a strong feeling that long names may cause problems like "Unofficial" turs into "Unoffi~1" followed by path not found errors. And (...) (18 years ago, 1-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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