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Re: problem with LDAO and VEC generation...
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Tue, 2 Mar 1999 17:19:26 GMT
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And I'm glad it wasn't something silly or stupid that LDAO was doing.
Also glad there is a straight-forward solution to the (current) problem.
Steve
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999 14:32:54 GMT, "Ben Vaughan" <buster@marsbase.com>
wrote:
> Well, it's to bad that LDLite has this bug, but I'm not really upset.
> Actually, I'm just glad to know it's not something silly (read stupid) that I
> was or wasn't doing.
> I'll look forward to version 1.6. 8)
>
> Ben
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> Paul Gyugyi writes:
> > ACK!
> > I'm 90% certain the problem is due to an LDLite bug.
> > LDLite 1.5 was supposed to use the ldraw.ini file
> > for pathnames, but mistakenly still uses the LDRAWDIR
> > environment variable in two cases: the load of the file
> > specified on the command line, and the saving of bitmap
> > files. Since most people in this group have both
> > ldraw.ini and LDRAWDIR set, the appearance of the bug
> > has been somewhat random, mostly when people reinstall
> > everything.
> >
> > LDLite 1.6 fixes this, and should be up on my web site in
> > a day or two. I was going to release it yesterday, but
> > a beta site had trouble with missing/incompatible DLLs,
> > so it looks like I need to statically link in MFC,
> > which will up the file size from 150kB to 450kB :(.
> >
> > -gyug
> >
> > Ben Vaughan wrote:
> > >
> > > Steve, or whoever may have a suggestion 8)
> > >
> > > I recently rebuilt my machine and have reinstalled all my LDRAW files (LDAO,
> > > ldlite, ldraw, l3p, etc.). I setup LDAO to use LDLite and it works just • fine,
> > > but I also setup the Catalog Tool to use LDLite also. When I try to • generate
> > > the VEC images, LDLite starts, but I only see the first image before I get • an
> > > error message: "An unnamed file contains an invalid path". If I choose "OK"
> > > and close the LDLite window, another one opens with the next part and the • error
> > > message again.
> > > My paths look like this:
> > > LDraw: c:\ldraw
> > > LDLite: c:\ldraw\ldlite\ldlite.exe
> > > LDAO: c:\ldao
> > >
> > > I've got the catalog tool setup as:
> > > c:\ldraw\ldlite\ldlite.exe %model% %parm% (as the executable)
> > > working directory is: c:\ldraw (or %base%, I've tried both.)
> > > None of the options are checked.
> > >
> > > Suggestions?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Ben
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