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Re: Ldlite 1.0
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lugnet.cad
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Mon, 12 Oct 1998 15:51:20 GMT
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Paul Gyugyi <paul@gyugyi.com> writes:
> Well, I got around to releasing ldlite 1.0. It's at
> <http://www.gyugyi.com/l3g0/ldlite/>. Enjoy.
ZOWIE!! Yes! Amazing!
> Some fun things I've done:
> 1. I set up my web server to know that *.dat files
> have a MIME type of application/x-ldraw, and then
> associated those files with ldlite. Now I can click
> on a link to a .dat file and Netscape will fire up
> ldlite for me. Unfortunately this only works if
> webmasters set up their server correctly. (You can
> sometimes set mime types in the .httpaccess file,
> I think, so you don't have to be root on the server).
> The same thing could be done for email/news attachments.
Another thing you can do is have a CGI script return
Content-type: application/x-ldraw
instead of text/html or text/plain...that's what I did since I had a CGI
script already for extracting article bodies on-the-fly.
> 2. I started working on a capturing a model. I had open
> four windows: LDAO's editor, VEC, ldlite oblique view, and
> ldlite top view. I'd change a line in the editor, save it,
> and then reload the file "File/1" in the ldlite windows.
> This was pretty cool, and adding an auto-reload of files
> when they change is high on my TODO list, so that just saving
> the file in the editor would cause all ldlite windows to update.
Ha--cool! So then, it's almost like LEdit in a way, except much higher
quality imagery? What happens when you delete a line?
BTW, that shading feature really makes my day! Hoo-ahh!
--Todd
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| (...) Currently ldlite re-parses the file from the beginning when you reload, which is only tolerable because it is so fast. I envision a version that "checkpoints" after each step, saving the bitmap and zbuffer, and starts from the last unmodified (...) (28 years ago, 13-Oct-98, to lugnet.cad)
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| Well, I got around to releasing ldlite 1.0. It's at (URL). Enjoy. Some fun things I've done: 1. I set up my web server to know that *.dat files have a MIME type of application/x-ldraw, and then associated those files with ldlite. Now I can click on (...) (28 years ago, 12-Oct-98, to lugnet.cad)
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