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In lugnet.cad, Steve Anderson wrote:
> Has anyone considered tackling LDraw/LDLite as a Java Applet, maybe with
> controls for rotation? [...]
Steve! Whoa, heavy....like...WAY COOL IDEA!!!!!
How come nobody's ever suggested this yet? (Or have they?)
I mean, forget all about making a Mac clone of LDraw or any other specific
platform -- even Linux -- why not write it all as a standalone app in Java?
Java is a good enough language to write serious applications in. As a
byproduct, if it were architected properly, the app (or portions of it) would
be separable and also run on a Java-enabled web browser.
If cross-platform happiness isn't yet a 100% reality with Java, surely it
would be by the time the project were complete...?
I've seen more sucky Java applets on the web than I care to remember, but it
*is* possible to write excellent cross-platform apps in Java (they're just
exceptional).
--Todd
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| Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) Why thank you =) (...) Indeed - I've got a guitar tabulature editor written entirely in Java and it runs as happily on a Win32 box as my friend's Linux box and apparently another friend's Mac. Rumour has it (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) Another benefit of a Java version is that it's *much* easier to write networkable apps with Java than with C / C++. Parts updates can be automagically downloaded and installed from a "parts server"; alternatively, individual parts could be (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| I actually thought of this long ago and mentioned it to LDraw Master James himself. He didn't sound very interested in it at the time because he didn't think java was fast enough to support it. I sorta dropped the idea after that. I'm glad Todd made (...) (25 years ago, 26-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad)
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| Talk is cheep. I spent the last couple of days trying to pound out a quick Java Ldraw program. Check out the results: (URL) as an Applet is way too slow. Its best to download jre and try it with that: (URL) that this is terribly buggy right now and (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| Has anyone considered tackling LDraw/LDLite as a Java Applet, maybe with controls for rotation? I hadn't really thought about the seriousness of it, until I saw this site: (URL) with a fully functional Sinclair ZX Spectrum being emulated on a web (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad)
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