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| I had the idea to write a dll that contain all necessary stuff to render a model and show it in a window or a picture box in windows (W98 or higher). I have had some problems at the beginning but after some help it works (with still some problems), (...) (17 years ago, 19-Dec-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) Wow. That would be very awesome. :) (...) I don't remember - does VB5 have native code compilation? This would probably be one situation where that would be a good option to use, for performance. I also seem to remember that VB5 came with a (...) (17 years ago, 20-Dec-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) The best bet (and one option I've been eying for a while) is LDView. It's source is open and it's written generically enough that it could be completely cross platform. -Orion (17 years ago, 21-Dec-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) There's actually another alternative, and that would be to use LDView.exe itself. There's been code in LDView for a long time that is designed to allow an LDView renderer to show up as a child window of another program. It was never completed, (...) (17 years ago, 22-Dec-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) Windows isn't really made for parenting other processes into another window. Many things seem to work, but sooner or later you stumble over something that doesn't, and there's no workaround. Also, it is not at all obvious that all the users of (...) (17 years ago, 22-Dec-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) I just have tested this option and the result is that all stood still and can only be closed. This shut down then the complete GUI of VB5. Thats my first feedback for this. In general I would like more a dll or whatever, that I can show also (...) (17 years ago, 22-Dec-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) Why should it be so complicate. I think about a DLL that gets only some informations like: Filename(to render),LDrawPath, LDConfigPath, BackgroundColor, DefaultColor and hDC for output. All other stuff should be done in a black box. This would (...) (17 years ago, 22-Dec-07, to lugnet.cad)
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