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LDraw and the Registry (was: Re: More newbie questions)
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lugnet.cad
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Wed, 23 Aug 2000 13:15:31 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Sproaticus wrote:
> In lugnet.cad, Steve Bliss writes:
> > I hacked around with this a bit. The necessity of having path-names really
> > limits the usefulness of this kind of utility, unfortunately.
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> Oh! I forgot to mention that, since my LDraw tools are in the PATH, I was able
> to omit path-names. That .reg file is pretty much as-is from my machine.
Ah. Hmm, that's a good reason to agree on a ldraw/bin/ directory (I hate
dumping stuff in /ldraw/, and my path is already a mile long).
> > Hmm, maybe I could build a Wise Install wizard, which
> > 1. Allows the user to pick which file-types they want to register (DAT,
> > MPD, LDL, and/or LDS (did I miss any?)).
> > 2. Locates all installed LDraw utilities (LDraw, LEdit, LDLite, L3Lab,
> > MLCAD, LDGLite, buildmpd, splitmpd, Textpad, etc.)
> > 3. Builds registry entries as required.
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> That would rock. Is there any way you could keep the tool list open, in case
> more pop up later?
I think so--Wise is fairly open and customizable, but I've never played
around with it.
It would be very nice to package up the wizard with a small set of BAT
files, to make it easier to work with the various DOS-based programs from
Explorer.
Steve
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| (...) Oh! I forgot to mention that, since my LDraw tools are in the PATH, I was able to omit path-names. That .reg file is pretty much as-is from my machine. (...) That would rock. Is there any way you could keep the tool list open, in case more pop (...) (26 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad)
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