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Re: Creating a Catalogue of LDD Elements
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lugnet.cad
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Fri, 16 Jun 2006 07:47:05 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Christopher Masi wrote:
> I prefer to design models using LDGlite instead of LDD, but constantly
> checking LDD for part availability is, well, troublesome. I usually wind
> up with one computer running LDD and the other running LDGLite just so I
> can look at the parts that are available in LDD while I'm running
> LDGLite. I considered creating a web page with pictures and part numbers
> for all of the available parts, but I gave up... 500 elements was just
> too many. So, anyone want to work together and break up the project into
> more manageable bits?
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> I suggest that anyone who wants to help can choose one of the LDD
> sub-pallets (plates, bricks, tiles, etc.) and create gif's (or are png's
> more appropriate?) and then those images could be stitched together into
> a web page. Also, maybe someone could make the pages searchable? I
> don't know, could a javascript be written that allows a browser to
> search a list of filenames for certain words and then display the images
> with the appropriate words?
>
> So we need...
> Volunteers to create the images of the pieces.
> Volunteers to put the pieces together into a static web page.
> Someone to look into creating a browser powered searchable database
> (with everything stored locally).
> Someone to host the archive for download.
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> I'll volunteer to create some of the images.
> I'll volunteer to help create a static web page (if know one minds
> really old and only so-so html)
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> Anyone, anyone...
> Chris
As Ross mentioned, xsl is definitely the way to go for collecting the data. I
actually started playing with the xml files a little while ago. Here's what I
currently have:
http://www.truedimensions.com/lego/misc/lddBrickSet.htm
It's pretty basic at the moment, being just a static html page, but it's mostly
complete. The images are directly linked to Peeron. I hope they don't mind (if
so, just let me know).
J
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