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    Part color availability —Roland Melkert
   Hello all, While working on my editor I got the idea of helping the user pick colors for parts by (optionally) limiting the color picker to colors in which the current part is available in real-life (e.g. black, white, light gray for axles). Does (...) (14 years ago, 16-Jan-11, to lugnet.cad)
   
        Re: Part color availability —Orion Pobursky
     (...) The 2 best places would probably be Peeron.com or Bricklink. Be aware that Bricklink's naming system is sometimes different from LDraw and Peeron's. -Orion (14 years ago, 17-Jan-11, to lugnet.cad)
    
         Re: Part color availability —Scott Wardlaw
      (...) LDconfig color names are exactly the same as Bricklink's color names, but have underscores '_' instead of spaces ' '. Scott (14 years ago, 17-Jan-11, to lugnet.cad)
    
         Re: Part color availability —Roland Melkert
     (...) Thanks, I was hoping for something easier, but it should be doable to setup lookup information for core parts by cross referencing inventories. Thanks (14 years ago, 22-Jan-11, to lugnet.cad)
   
        Re: Part color availability —Scott Wardlaw
   (...) You are welcome to copy the code from my program that already does this: (URL) that more colors are sometimes available for sale other than just the known colors, and sometimes known colors are not currently offered for sale by any sellers. I (...) (14 years ago, 17-Jan-11, to lugnet.cad)
   
        Re: Part color availability —Roland Melkert
   (...) Thanks, I take it you do some data mining with your application? I will certainly take a look at it sooner or later. (14 years ago, 22-Jan-11, to lugnet.cad)
 

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