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Re: L3Lab - yet another LDraw viewer
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lugnet.cad
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Thu, 2 Mar 2000 19:03:18 GMT
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Correction to prior post: if you are actually *editing* anything, you
*must* open the COD*.* file in L3Lab, not the EDI*.* file.
Steve
In lugnet.cad, Steve Bliss wrote:
> Not right now. For LDLite, the -P command-line parameter activates
> Polling. In L3Lab, it automatically renders, prints, and exits.
>
> What you can do instead is this:
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> - Open LDAO's editor
> - Set the view-angle to Front in LDAO
> - Look at the LDLite window to get the temp-file name
> - Open the temp file in L3Lab
> - On L3Lab's File menu, activate Poll for Changes
> - Close the LDLite window.
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> This work-around works great, unless you flip around between a lot of
> different files.
>
> To work on multiple files, your best bet is to use the File | Open
> command from the LDAO Editor. This should maintain the link between
> LDAO and L3Lab (let me go try that a second; drat!) That does not
> produce the expected results. Let me explain. No, that would take too
> long, let me sum up.
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> The LDAO Editor writes two temp files: one contains the code from the
> file being edited, and the other contains a reference to the other file,
> with the view settings from the Editor. The view-program (either LDLite
> or L3Lab) renders the second file. L3Lab caches the sub-file, the one
> with all the code, and never checks it for changes. When LDAO loads a
> new file, it keeps the same two temp files, just replacing their
> contents. When L3Lab renders the main file, it refers to its cached
> copy of the subfile, which contains the old edit file, not the current
> edit file.
>
> Clear as mud, right?
>
> Anyway, just to make this process more difficult, you can open the
> subfile in L3Lab. This will disable *all* of the view-options from
> LDAO, but it might be worth that (slight) loss. The main file is always
> named Edit*.*. The subfile will be in the same directory as the main
> file, named Code*.*.
>
> There seems to be some variables at work within LDAO, as far as
> temp-file location and extension. I'll have to work on those.
>
> Steve
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| (...) [rendering time snipped, just in case you haven't read John's message yet.] WOW. That is incredible. (...) Ooo, yeah. That would be good. (...) Not right now. For LDLite, the -P command-line parameter activates Polling. In L3Lab, it (...) (27 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad)
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