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Re: MPD Builder ?
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lugnet.cad
Date: 
Sun, 19 Dec 2004 20:49:26 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Philippe Hurbain wrote:
> Hello Orion,
> > 
> > Here's a link to an early test alpha of my program:
> > http://www.pobursky.com/temp/MPDEditor.zip
> > 
> > Right now you can only mkae MPD and not extract file from them.  I'm calling it
> > MPD Editor until I think of something better.
> 
> Since it is not an editor... what about MPD Wizard?

I like it.

> > If you test it out, let me know if there is anything majorly wrong or if you
> > have any suggestions to make things less confusing.  I've tested it in quite a
> > few scenarios but I'm sure there are more bugs than I found.
> 
> - I had troubles with decimal separator: in France a comma is used instead of a
> period, so your program expects to find ',' in ldr files and rejects each line
> as invalid. I modified my system setup for further testing...

I thought I fixed this problem a long time ago.  Do you experience the same
problem with LDDP?

> - Embedding s/ and p/48 in 0 FILE statement works well for MLCad and LPub, but
> not for LDview. I tend to think this is a LDview problem.

I tested with LDView 3.0b.  What version are you using?

> - Rembering all paths settings between runs would be a nice touch.

I'm working on this.

> - I am missing the possibility to choose a "reference part library path". Your
> program assumes default LDraw file to contain only the official parts, while for
> me this is my working library (containing unofficial parts). Maybe my setup is
> buggy?

Hmm, the way I work it is to have the LDRAW folder with the reference library
and have a separte folder for the unoffical library.  This is the method
currently recommended by the PT admin.

-Orion



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  Re: MPD Builder ?
 
(...) No, LDDP works fine. I'm using Windows 2000. (...) I tried both 3.0beta and 2.1. Same problem. (...) Fine! in the same vein, adding automatically a .mpd extension if needed for output file would be great. (...) I know this is the "official" (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad)

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  Re: MPD Builder ?
 
Hello Orion, (...) Since it is not an editor... what about MPD Wizard? (...) - I had troubles with decimal separator: in France a comma is used instead of a period, so your program expects to find ',' in ldr files and rejects each line as invalid. I (...) (22 years ago, 18-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad)

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