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Re: L3Lab - yet another LDraw viewer
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lugnet.cad
Date: 
Fri, 3 Mar 2000 16:16:58 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Lars C. Hassing wrote:

> Steve Bliss wrote...
> > In lugnet.cad, John VanZwieten wrote:
> > 
> > > Can L3 work with LDAO's editor, like LDLite does?  That would be great for
> > > part creation, too.
> > 
> > Not right now.  For LDLite, the -P command-line parameter activates
> > Polling.  In L3Lab, it automatically renders, prints, and exits.
> 
> GyuGyi shouldn't have chosen -P, as Windows uses -p,-P,/p,/P for printing
> e.g. when you drag a DAT file to the printer.
> 
> L3Lab doesn't support printing (I know I forgot to turn the menus off :-)
> so I *could* use the -P option, but I would like to leave that open.
> Steve, can you launch L3Lab like "L3Lab -poll <file>" in stead (or is the -P
> hardcoded). Then I will make a -poll option.

Sure, I can fix up LDAO.  Actually, I think I'll remove the "Editor
Renderer Tool" completely, and provide an option to use either LDLite or
L3Lab as the viewer for editing.

> Just turn off "Cache subfiles" in the File menu!

Doh!  Well, that's a lot easier than the gyrations I was going through
yesterday.

> Loading the model then takes a bit longer as all subfiles will be loaded again.
> Perhaps I should make another commandline option for this, -nocache?

Might be a good idea, in general.

Since the major Windows-based rendering programs can all handle MPD
format, maybe I'll dump the two-file approach in favor of putting both
files in a single MPD.

Steve



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  Re: L3Lab - yet another LDraw viewer
 
Steve Bliss wrote... (...) GyuGyi shouldn't have chosen -P, as Windows uses -p,-P,/p,/P for printing e.g. when you drag a DAT file to the printer. L3Lab doesn't support printing (I know I forgot to turn the menus off :-) so I *could* use the -P (...) (27 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad)

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