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Minimalist LDraw on floppy?
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lugnet.cad
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Mon, 6 Mar 2000 23:08:24 GMT
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JSPROAT@IO.spamlessCOM
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...With 13 Mb of parts files, yeah right. Bummer. :-(
However, it would be really really really cool if LDLite, MLCad, etc. would
load parts from a URL as needed. In my view, agreeing upon a transmission
protocol for this is probably the highest priority for renderer authors right
now, perhaps next to backface culling. It couldn't be that much more work;
you'd basically be tacking a URL onto the search path and the actual download
could be a simple HTTP GET.
And this time I can contribute. I'm willing to put time into writing the
download code.
Yay? Nay? Comments?
Another thought on this: how about giving an option for saving the downloaded
parts in LDRAW/P or LDRAW/PARTS (or in subdirs as needed), to help speed up
future renderings using the same parts. With this, getting updates from the
parts library would be incredibly simple for the end-user. (But perhaps not
so simple for the maintainers of the download area.) Then again, new
downloaded parts would need a way of getting into the user's PARTS.LST
file... But on the gripping hand, PARTS.LST is only used for browsing for
parts in LEdit, and is largely unnecessary if you're using Steve's awesome
partsref, and can always be regenerated anyway.
Cheers,
- jsproat
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Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@io.com> ~~~ http://www.io.com/~jsproat/
Card-carrying member of the Star-Bellied Sneech Preservation Society
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: Minimalist LDraw on floppy?
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| I think this is a great idea. I was thinking about a similar thing, where MLCad would load full updates from the internet, and install it onto the machine. However searching unknown parts on the internet is a very good idea too, but would require (...) (24 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad)
| | | Re: Minimalist LDraw on floppy?
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| For the Mac version of ldglite, I was thinking of building in the unarchive code (unarj) because of arj' obscurity in the Mac world, and then I thought, why not just have it get parts as needed from the arj? ldraw.exe is 988k, complete.exe is 1800k (...) (24 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad)
| | | Re: Minimalist LDraw on floppy?
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| Jeremy: (...) No problem. The easy solution would be to unpack the whole parts distribution somewhere on ldraw.org. I think there is even conditional downloading built into the HTTP protocol. Something slightly more advanced would be to create (...) (24 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad)
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