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Program INI files (was: RE: Some comments on the LPub 2.2.0.9 beta)
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lugnet.cad
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Mon, 28 Mar 2005 19:32:21 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Don Heyse wrote:
> In lugnet.cad, Kevin L. Clague wrote:
> > In lugnet.cad, Andreas Maier wrote:
> > > I would like it even better if MLCAD was honoring a LPub
> > > meta command in the model that defines the camera
> > > position and orientation. After all, it is a model
> > > thing and not an installation wide thing.
> >
> > We agree that MLCad.ini is a good thing to get information from, as
> > long as we know that that is happening.
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> I haven't been able to keep up with this whole discussion, (sorry)
> but one thing struck me.
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> Once upon a time we tried to put this sort of global config stuff in
> the generic ldraw.ini file instead an app specific file like mlcad.ini.
> Here's an old disscusion of the [Views] section of ldraw.ini file.
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> http://news.lugnet.com/cad/mlcad/?n=1064
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> I'd consider saving the path to lsynth and lpub in the [Ldraw] section
> of ldraw.ini. Put view matrices in the [View] section and consider
> making new sections for [Lsynth] and [Lpub] specific settings. That
> way other apps like LDDP can find the settings (and any new config
> files) lsynth or lpub might need nowadays.
I like to add that LDDP, LDAO, and, to some extent, L3PAO use the ldraw.ini file
to store program wide settings. I like this approach since it doesn't use the
registry (which I abhor) and therefore makes the data easier to find and the
program easier to port cross platform (which will happen with LDDP, I just have
to get around it).
Non global config and other stuff that need to be readily user editable but is
not editable in the program itself should use a loacl INI file until a built in
editor is implemented (e.g. LDDP's Meta command menu INI and MLCad's Minifig
Generator parts list).
At some point I would like to see the search paths section of the MLCad.ini
migrate to the ldraw.ini. This way LDDP, LDView, etc can use these settings
instead of the user having to reinput them in every program.
-Orion
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| (...) I haven't been able to keep up with this whole discussion, (sorry) but one thing struck me. Once upon a time we tried to put this sort of global config stuff in the generic ldraw.ini file instead an app specific file like mlcad.ini. Here's an (...) (20 years ago, 28-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad)
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