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Re: problem with LDAO and VEC generation...
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Date: 
Fri, 5 Mar 1999 06:03:06 GMT
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Ack.  I seem to have broken the LDAO VEC with the new,
unreleased LDLite 1.6.  Looks like I won't get 1.6 out until
the weekend.
-gyug


Steve Bliss wrote:
> 
> 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
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 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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  Re: problem with LDAO and VEC generation...
 
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 (...) (28 years ago, 2-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad)

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