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Re: New Box Design
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lugnet.cad
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Sun, 20 Jan 2002 19:20:06 GMT
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"James Reynolds" <james.e.reynolds@m.cc.utah.edu> wrote in message
news:Gq87AK.MKK@lugnet.com...
> I just don't think anyone in the Mac developer community knows about LDraw • or
> has thought of doing anything like it.
Well, that's not entirely true (although it appears to be nearly true).
LDView will soon be available for Mac OS X. A friend of mine has ported it,
and is finishing up the documentation, installer, etc. All the non-UI code
is completely shared between the Windows and Mac OS X versions, so it will
have a vast majority of the features that the latest Windows version has
(along with many of the as-yet-undiscovered bugs).
However, this friend is a Mac OS X Cocoa developer, with a background more
similar to the people at Omni Group (NextStep/OpenStep), so he hasn't been a
Mac developer for all that long. For that matter, I could have rather
easily ported it to Mac OS X myself, except for the minor detail that I
don't own a Mac. (I also have an extensive NextStep/OpenStep background.)
However, the job of porting LDView was vastly simplified by the fact that it
uses OpenGL, and the fact that I kept the Windows-specific portions separate
from the OpenGL/LDraw model portions. There is a vast difference between
that and creating an application from scratch.
--Travis Cobbs (tcobbs@san.REMOVE.rr.com)
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| Who is your friend? I have been trying to get stuff to happen for almost 2 years now (see (URL) I am just surprised that I don't know about this. I am still pretty convinced that there are very few Mac developers who know about this. I can only (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New Box Design
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| The news Matt refers to is that I posted a message to the Apple Student Developer mail list (see (URL) LDraw. I have received several replies from students interested. I also have received some replies from Apple developers... When I went to Apple's (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad)
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