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(...) showing D:DownloadsShowParameters.exe The second line (Label2) however, stays blank. With friendly greetings, M. Moolhuysen. (20 years ago, 3-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) It's an utterly complicated way, but it works! Only problem is that GetLongPathName erases all other kinds of command line parameters. Now that I know that at least it is possible to avoid shortened pathnames, I rest my case. I no longer (...) (20 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Indeed. (...) Well that's the part I disagree with. Everyone is different, and making assumptions about what people will want to use is always bad for program developers. The choice should be the user's, not the programmer's. (...) That may be (...) (20 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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Before I say anything else, I want to point out that as the author of LDView my comments here are necessarily biased. So keep that in mind as you read them. (...) I disagree that it's not useful to have the unofficial parts in another directory. (...) (20 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) (URL) on Win2000 SP4 w. (20 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) My best guess is at that time MS was trying to make things safe for old programs (although it seems senseless for them to have done this with Win32 apps). If you call the Win32 function GetLongPathName on the short path, it will give you the (...) (20 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) That was command line, (URL) the result with drag n drop> is similar. ROSCO (20 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) No. Submissions must be made before the contest. So voting on the 1st and 31st will be the same. Tim (20 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Is it possible to submit to the sotm/motm contests when voting starts? I am always afraid to vote because there might be a better submission later on. James (20 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Hi Mike, Unfortunately with the system used by LDraw it is very hard for the webmasters (Willy, Orion and I) to do anything much like that so the answer is probably no I'm afraid. Of course it does have a de facto check... if you click to a (...) (20 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Tim Gould schrieb: (...) Hi Tim, I like the new -centered- position for all polls very, very much. But I have one question, is it possible to set a cookie on the client that would be read from the side, so I can see for which poll I have already (...) (20 years ago, 1-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: txt2dat on Mac OS X (was Re: Announcing Bitsticker)
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(...) Here is my rudimentary makefile for building txt2dat on my Mac and a linux machine. No guarantees it will work for anyone else but hopefully it could be helpful. Also a copy of txt2dat.c containing my quick checks to get around the lack of (...) (20 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: txt2dat on Mac OS X (was Re: Announcing Bitsticker)
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(...) I believe it is freetype 2.1.4 (based on the major/minor/patch definitions in freetype.h). The headers are last dated 2002, and a look at more recent freetype changelogs suggests that predates the introduction of "FTOrientation." It's annoying (...) (20 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) Yeah I know they can be included but it's usually a safe idea not to. When setting a standard I'd be wary of allowing anything that is commonly poorly interpreted (which I suspect the escaped characters are). Tim (20 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Thanks, Well well, first advantage of downgrading to XP, I guess. Just to be sure, you did drag and drop into the "application", or did you write it in a command line? /Tore (20 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: txt2dat on Mac OS X (was Re: Announcing Bitsticker)
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(...) Hmmm, interesting. txt2dat is currently compiled against 2.1.9, I haven't tried upgrading since txt2dat is the only thing I use it for. But the API doc at the freetype site still documents (URL) FTOrientation API>. Also, version 2.3.1 (which I (...) (20 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | txt2dat on Mac OS X (was Re: Announcing Bitsticker)
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(...) Hi Ross, It works! I just built it by hand, so I'll write a simple makefile for it tomorrow. Only issue is that the version of Freetype 2 that comes with OS X doesn't seem to know about FTOrientation, so I just ifdeffed out the few bits that (...) (20 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Mac MPD Utility obsolescence
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Man, I just realized that my old (URL) MPD Utility> is still listed on LDraw.org. Frankly, I don't think there's still a need for it, and I wouldn't really trust it to "do the right thing" with any given MPD. It was sort of cobbled together as a (...) (20 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) (URL) Here's> the output on XP. ROSCO (20 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Well, I made a small program in Delphi 7 that lists the command line parameters, drag and dropped a file named "LongFileName.dat" in it, and here is the surprising result: (URL) (Running on a Win98SE PC.) So I think long file names still has (...) (20 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: Announcing Bitsticker (and other txt/bit-to-dat utilities)
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(...) Hey, that'd be great! The makefile is a bit of a rat's nest, because I borrowed it from the freetype library, and modified it. The main reason I did that was for cross-platform compatability, but I've never had a Mac to try on. If you can get (...) (20 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Announcing Bitsticker (and other txt/bit-to-dat utilities)
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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 (...) (20 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LDView 3.1 on Mac OS X!
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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 (...) (20 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() (...) (20 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 (...) (20 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 (...) (20 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 (...) (20 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 (20 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 (20 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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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 (20 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 (...) (20 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 (...) (20 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 (...) (20 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 (...) (20 years ago, 1-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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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 (...) (20 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 (20 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 (...) (20 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 (...) (20 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 (...) (20 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 (20 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 (...) (20 years ago, 1-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Motion to the LDraw Bylaws (Accountability of "Key Positions"): Call for Ratification
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Since the motion to the LDraw Bylaws has been posted (URL) and publicly discussed, and since by peoples' silence, there appear to be no more lingering objections, the Steering Committee hereby calls for a community vote to ratify the motion which (...) (20 years ago, 1-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce)
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| | 2007/2008 LDraw Steering Committee Election is open
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The 2006 LDraw.org Steering Committee election is now open. To vote, please visit (URL) and log in with your user account. Next, visit the ballot page on LDraw.org here: (URL) LDraw organization members may vote and you may vote for up to five (...) (20 years ago, 1-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce)
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| | LDraw.org's February 2007 Model and Scene of the Month Winners
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Congratulations to the winners of the February 2007 Model/Scene Of The Month (MOTM/SOTM) contests: (URL) MOTM, Yellow Sportspeeder by Joseph Durel> (URL) SOTM, The Forces of Isengard by Philip Heinrich> The voting for the March 2007 Model of the (...) (20 years ago, 1-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce, FTX)
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| | LDView 3.2 on Mac OS X with Qt 3.3.7 status report
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Just an update on my LDView tinkering. I got Qt 3.3.7 compiled and used it to rebuild the current LDView 3.2 code. As predicted in the other LDView thread, using Qt 3.3.7 instead of Qt 4.2.2 resolved some of the issues I'd observed, most notably the (...) (20 years ago, 1-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Announcing Bitsticker
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I'd like to announce the availability of a little script I wrote that converts small bitmap images (JPG, PNG, GIF) to "stickers" that you can use in your LDraw models. The script is called Bitsticker and there's nothing to download: just visit (URL) (...) (20 years ago, 1-Mar-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, FTX) !!
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| | Nominations Closed was Call for Nominations: 2007 LDraw.org Steering Committee
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In lugnet.cad, Willy Tschager wrote: --snip-- (...) Hi all, The nomination process is now closed. Thanks to everyone involved. We will announce the voting elsewhere. Tim (20 years ago, 28-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Unofficial directory (with non-standard name lenght)? (Was: LDView 3.1 on Mac OS X!)
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--snip-- (...) Personally I'm against maintaining it. It forces us into strange naming conventions for something which probably affects no users of the software. Tim (20 years ago, 28-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Unofficial directory (with non-standard name lenght)? (Was: LDView 3.1 on Mac OS X!)
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(...) So far, we have maintained the old DOS convention of max. 8 chars and no SPACE used in folder names. I realize that fewer and fewer programs and utils are made in DOS evironments, maybe I'm the only to still make quick 'n' dirty programs in (...) (20 years ago, 28-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: Reminder: 2007 Steering Committee Nominations closing in 24 hours
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(...) And once more for 24 hours from now. Tim (20 years ago, 27-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Call for Nominations: 2007 LDraw.org Steering Committee
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Willy Tschager schrieb: (...) I Michael Heidemann accept the nomination. mikeheide (20 years ago, 27-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Bricksmith tips and techniques
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(...) I hope you are not alarmed that someone has been snooping around in there! :) In fact, I hadn't actually tried to commit anything; frankly, I'd just left that as an exercise for anyone else who thought the colorized icons were handy (which (...) (20 years ago, 27-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Bricksmith tips and techniques
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(...) Thanks. I love to have happy users! (...) Good gosh, someone is even digging through my CVS repository! The reason you're not able to commit anything, incidentally, is because you are not listed as a Developer on my project. Anyway, if you (...) (20 years ago, 27-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LDView 3.1 on Mac OS X!
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I'm delighted to see another developer supporting the Macintosh. (...) Yeah, LDraw/Unofficial just seemed like the logical choice. That was feature that went nowhere, though. I never even documented it, because I didn't think anyone else supported (...) (20 years ago, 27-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | "UCS" LEGO Factory MOC: GP-38
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I present my first venture into the world of 10-wide LEGO Factory train creations, a GP-38 locomotive in CSX-like colors. (URL) > A while back, there was some discussion about UCS train models, so I created this as a response. It can be used as a (...) (20 years ago, 27-Feb-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.cad.ldd, FTX) !
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| | Re: Call for Nominations: 2007 LDraw.org Steering Committee
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(...) I, Willy Tschager, second this nomination. w. (20 years ago, 27-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Call for Nominations: 2007 LDraw.org Steering Committee
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(...) My thanks to the nominators for the vote of confidence, but my life will be busier than normal over the next 6 months that I, Kevin Clague, am going to decline the nomination. Kevin (20 years ago, 26-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Call for Nominations: 2007 LDraw.org Steering Committee
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I, Tim Gould, nominate Michael Heidemann (20 years ago, 26-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Call for Nominations: 2007 LDraw.org Steering Committee
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(...) I, Tim Gould, second this nomination (20 years ago, 26-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Call for Nominations: 2007 LDraw.org Steering Committee
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I, Michael Heidemann, nominate Guy Vivan. mikeheide (20 years ago, 26-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Hook Coupling 737c01.dat and 444.dat train wheel.
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Reinhard "Ben" Beneke schrieb: (...) I just found on Peeron the following part: x468cx1 Electric 4.5V Battery Box 6 x 11 x 3 & 1/3 with Red Dot and Single Plugs In the instruction it seems to be the same as x468cx4 Electric 4.5V Battery Box 6 x 11 x (...) (20 years ago, 26-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Hook Coupling 737c01.dat and 444.dat train wheel.
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Reinhard "Ben" Beneke schrieb: (...) I just saw this old message and I do not know wheather you have seen this: (URL) (20 years ago, 26-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: New LDraw modeling/animation/POV-Ray tutorial
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(...) Sorry about the nagging! It's *definitely* readable for me too now, and the contents are good! Thank you for the tutorial! (20 years ago, 23-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Reminder: 2007 Steering Committee Nominations closing in two days
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(...) Just serving further reminder that you have two days to go. Tim (20 years ago, 26-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: " (needs work)" officially sanctioned by LSC
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(...) I also have not had problems accessing your site. I am using FF 2.0.0.2. Sounds like there may be a router issue somewhere between you & Willy. ROSCO (20 years ago, 25-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Willy Tschager schrieb: (...) I have really no idea what is going on there. I have still no problems to reach my sides. I send to you the new version by separate Email. But again, I can not see any fault on the server side. cu Michael Heidemann (20 years ago, 25-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: " (needs work)" officially sanctioned by LSC
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(...) the direct link doesn't work neither :-( tried with firefox 2.1 and bill's "browser" (sic!) on three different machines, with two different providers. I get your pop-up add but the page is not reachable. w. (20 years ago, 25-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Bricksmith tips and techniques
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(...) Hey, cool axes. Yes, I'm still really using ldglite. Hoever, I just got a new MacBook! Hey, I wonder if the new development tools will compile a a "fat" binary of ldglite. I'll have to look into that when I have the time. Chris (20 years ago, 25-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad)
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Willy Tschager schrieb: (...) Just tried to connect and I have access. I have never heard before that there are problems. The pages are hostet at arcor, which is one of the biggest hoster. (URL) is the direct link to the download page. Michael (...) (20 years ago, 24-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) site is down :-( ... mike, it happens quiet frequently that www.michael-heidemann.de is not reachable. anything you can do on that? w. (20 years ago, 24-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: " (needs work)" officially sanctioned by LSC
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mikeheide schrieb: (...) A new Version of DATHeader is now available at www.michael-heidemann.de. Any comments are welcome Michael Heidemann (20 years ago, 24-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Travis Cobbs schrieb: (...) Good News! I have to go to update DATHeader. There should be a new version available tomorrow. (20 years ago, 23-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: " (needs work)" officially sanctioned by LSC
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Yeah! Thanks guys! Big encouragement to set my parts moving again and hopefully it will encourage the community by getting a lot more parts more readily available. -Matt :) (...) ---...--- www.auctionbrick.com - username mchiles Matt Chiles 1006 (...) (20 years ago, 23-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: New LDraw modeling/animation/POV-Ray tutorial
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(...) Ok, I hadn't realized how unreadable it was on Windows. I just changed the whole thing. I'm not that good with design yet (I'm going for a certain look and not doing too good of a job with it...), so it still looks funny IMO. But I think it is (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New LDraw modeling/animation/POV-Ray tutorial
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(...) Well it's definitely an improvement, but I still find the bluish grey text in your links difficult to read. I think, as (URL) pointed out>, that the main problem might lie in the black background. ROSCO (20 years ago, 22-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: New LDraw modeling/animation/POV-Ray tutorial
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(...) I *think* the content is OK, but I had to give up reading it :-( Black backgrounds just don't work for my eyes (brain?). The text is blurry to begin with, and after a short time I just can't read it at all, everything swims before my eyes. I (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad)
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The LDraw Standards Committee (LSC) has officially sanctioned the use of " (needs work)" in part titles to allow parts to be certified with known problems. Note that this has been used for years now in the library, but many part authors and (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: Accountability of "Key Positions" - updated version
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(...) I think LDraw politics are a litle more tame than Italy's ;) I don't think that would be a problem. I would hope that for it to happen the situation would have to be so bad that it would be unanimous (apart from in this type of situation which (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Accountability of "Key Positions" - updated version
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(...) hmm ... as you might know Italy is going through a new cabinet crises (again) and faces new elections and the risk to be governed by mr. conflict of interest himself (read: berlusconi). what about the conflict of interest if the key position (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDView 3.1 on Mac OS X!
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(...) Correction to the screenshot link I just posted of LDView with a more compact Qt style: (URL) Sorry for the double post. Jim (20 years ago, 22-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: LDView 3.1 on Mac OS X!
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(...) After taking another look at the list of uic3 warnings and LDView.ui, I am willing to bet that my problems with fly-through mode - and polling mode, maybe are due to QT4 differences. Both pollChanged(QAction*) and viewChangedMode(QAction*) are (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: New LDraw modeling/animation/POV-Ray tutorial
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(...) I just changed it to white on black. Is that better? I'm not entirely happy with my site's design, and I never really did take into account Windows gamma differences, so I should probably make more changes. James (20 years ago, 22-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Bricksmith tips and techniques
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(...) I continue to use ldglite, too, primarily for its indispensable "hoser" function. Incidentally, I do have some trouble with 1.0.18 on my Intel Mac. The display doesn't seem to "update" properly except briefly after being obscured by a menu, (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New LDraw modeling/animation/POV-Ray tutorial
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(...) Hi James, I started reading it, and it seems pretty good, but I find that colour combination (grey on black) almost impossible to read. Would you consider using a higher contrast combination? ROSCO (20 years ago, 22-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | New LDraw modeling/animation/POV-Ray tutorial
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I'm posting an LDraw modeling/animation/POV-Ray tutorial. In the tutorial, I show how to take an LDraw file, make it animatable, convert it to POV-Ray using Anton Raves' parts library and create an animation from it. I'll try to go over as much (...) (20 years ago, 21-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce, lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: LDView 3.1 on Mac OS X!
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(...) Yeah, they have been working on it for some time, almost 3 years. I'm very eager to get rid of the old version on my website! I don't believe it works with 10.4. I'm very glad to see more Mac LDraw apps! James (20 years ago, 21-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Bricksmith tips and techniques
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(...) Yes, and I'm finally publishing another that goes into more detail today if my publishing scripts would only work... James (20 years ago, 21-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad)
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| | Reminder: 2007 Steering Committee Nominations closing in a week
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Hi folks, As outlined here: (URL) will close in a week, at 11:59 PM GMT on 28 February 2007 and elections will start the 1st of March. Only those candidates that have been nominated, seconded, and have accepted as outlined, will be eligible for (...) (20 years ago, 21-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce)
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| | 4 New Blacktron (I), 4 M-Tron and 2 Futuron/Classic Space MOCs
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Hi, I've uploaded some new MOCs to my website: (URL) (I): - Starfighter I intended to create a triangular vessel, and ended up with this mixture of a Stealth Fighter and the Eurofighter. - Blacktron Gripper Glider I wanted to try a curved nose, (...) (20 years ago, 21-Feb-07, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.space)
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| | Re: LDView 3.1 on Mac OS X!
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(...) Hi, Travis. I've (URL) LDView 3.2> with Qt 4.2.2 using your updated code. I thought I'd share my leads on the remaining kinks before proceeding. First, how I got it to compile: I expanded libtool to /usr/bin/libtool at line 13 of Makefile.inc (...) (20 years ago, 21-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Bricksmith tips and techniques
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(...) Wow, you need an upgrade almost as bad as I do. I'm still using a PC with Windows 95 on it. Here's another set of axis that've been around for a while now. They're not as big, but they're labeled so you don't have to remember which color is (...) (20 years ago, 21-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Bricksmith tips and techniques
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Jim DeVona wrote: [...] Bricksmith doesn't display coordinate axes. However, (...) [...]> (...) Hey, That's cool. I still am using the same old computer, so LDGLite is the LDRAWing tool of choice for me, but never the less, that is a cool trick. (...) (20 years ago, 21-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Accountability of "Key Positions" - updated version
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(...) to get pedantic (likewise not via SteerCo) I think this may be better (change is in bold or square brackets) Section 6.09: Removal of Key Positions Key Positions are accountable to the Steering Committee and might be removed if someone fails (...) (20 years ago, 20-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: Accountability of "Key Positions" - updated version
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Many thx for your input! Find below a revised version of the motion. Please note this has not gone through the SteerCo and is proposed solely by me in an attempt to move on from this issue as quickly as possible. w. ---...--- Beginning of motion (...) (20 years ago, 20-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDView 3.1 on Mac OS X!
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(...) I took a look at the QChar docs in both QT 3 and QT 4, and updated the failing line of code to call the unicode() function on the QChar object. This builds fine in QT 3, and should also build fine in QT 4. I haven't had a chance yet to see if (...) (20 years ago, 20-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: LDView 3.1 on Mac OS X!
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(...) On my MacBook, wchart is a 4-byte type. I'm not sure about the QChar definition. I've found a class definition in /src/corelib/tools/q...ar.h/.cpp, but my C++ is weak so on first glance I'm not sure how to interpret its type compatibility. (...) (20 years ago, 20-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: LDView Ortho View?
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(...) Ah, good to know. Thanks Travis, I'll give it a shot. (20 years ago, 20-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDView Ortho View?
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If you set the viewing angle in LDView to 0.1, you'll get something that very closely approximates a true Ortho View. True Ortho is on the list of future features, but I just haven't gotten around to implementing it. --Travis (20 years ago, 20-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad)
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Just wanted to drop a request for an orthogonal view in an LDView future release. Unless I'm missing something, it appears all of its views are perspective, which isn't ideal for instruction creation. I like the LDView render better than LDGLite, (...) (20 years ago, 20-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDView 3.1 on Mac OS X!
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(...) I have to wonder what QChar is defined as in QT4. In QT3, it's just an integer type, as far as I can tell. The wchar_t type is just an integer type (4-byte integer in Linux, 2-byte integer in Windows, not sure about OSX). I suspect this error (...) (20 years ago, 20-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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