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Are you using the brand-new, just-released yesterday LDLite 1.6? Your problem sounds like what happened in 1.5 if you did not have the LDRAWDIR environment variable set correctly. -gyug (...) (26 years ago, 9-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad)
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I've got the same problem, with LDLite 1.6. Steve (...) (26 years ago, 9-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad)
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Same here. Steve Bliss wrote in message <36e529d2.4430308@lu...et.com>... (...) work (...) and (...) registered: (...) (26 years ago, 12-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad)
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OK. I'm having the same problem described below in #1. Every thing works for files on my drive, but when I click on the "Open this as an LDraw .Dat file" on the Lugnet.Cad.Dat pages, I get a blank screen. One thing I notice is that just before (...) (26 years ago, 12-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad)
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First, try the obvious: run 1.6 and reset the LDRAW base directory. I don't know exactly why, but that has helped before. Netscape+LDLite works OK for me, so I'm just guessing at the problem. After the "Finished" appears, go to the File/Save As menu (...) (26 years ago, 13-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad)
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Paul Gyugyi wrote in message <36EA29C7.EEF79F0A@g...yi.com>... (...) I've done this, but I'll try again.... Nope. No difference. (...) Nope. Funny thing here.... The file name is "ldraw". Then after I tried it again, on the same dat file (this is (...) (26 years ago, 14-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad)
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I can guess what it is: IE is using a temp file name and path name that is a little too weird for LDLite. The LDLite code that opens file names changed in 1.6, and it is possible that a unallowed symbol is in the path to the file, e.g. something not (...) (26 years ago, 14-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad)
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Paul Gyugyi wrote in message <36EB5A65.CE9B8A20@g...yi.com>... (...) Yep, looks like you've got it here. Just to check, I saved a file to disk (rather than opening it immediately) and IE provided a default name of "ldraw(2)". So, I saved it with (...) (26 years ago, 15-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad)
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Hi here are extracts from two articles out of the microsoft documentation: extract 1: Long Names to Use for Testing Use the following guidelines to test your application for proper handling of long file and printer names (spaces are represented by (...) (26 years ago, 16-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Benoit, This information you extracted from the two articles -- was it copyrighted information? Did MS place it in the public domain or grant a license to republish it elsewhere? --Todd (26 years ago, 29-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad)
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