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Re: hey gyug... a suggestion
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lugnet.cad
Date: 
Fri, 12 Feb 1999 16:28:21 GMT
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JSPROAT@GEOCITIESnomorespam.COM
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onyx wrote:
> one thing that would be nice in the LDLite view dialog would be
> the ability to translate the model's position... in other words, have the
> LDraw/LDAO "offset" settings as a part of the LDLite view options..

I can safely say that this would be relatively easy to do.  I won't speak
for Gyug, but I wouldn't be surprised if this feature wasn't in the next
version of LDLite.

> hmmm.. and didn't someone (i think it was in Steve's future plan for LDAO) have
> the idea to code a routine to automatically center the model in the
> viewport...lars did this well in L3P when it creates the POV file... probably
> would mean parsing the .DAT once to determine the model's bounding box, and
> then parsing it again to actually draw the elements (translated to fit
> said bounding box within the viewport)... but still, it would be a nice
> option...

I've been thinking about this, and it seems like it would be more work than
would be practical.  However, LDLite *might* use the -V command-line option
with two numbers, to indicate the size of the bitmap; then use scrollbars to
allow for really large bitmaps for any size window, and possibly even center
the bitmap from the start.

Cheers,
- jsproat

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| |  I'm sorry Dave, but Abort, Retry or Fail?
|o|  Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@geocities.com>
|_|  http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/5249/



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  Re: hey gyug... a suggestion
 
Seeing as Jeremy has written more code for the upcoming 1.6 release than I have, he's a pretty good authority on the subject. I'll try hard to get his ldraw-options-dialog-box in the next release. As for the bitmaps, a two-pass auto-sizing feature (...) (28 years ago, 21-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad)

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  hey gyug... a suggestion
 
lately i've been playing with LDLite a great deal.. since i was compiling my mega-list of views that i posted, i've been going in a changing the current view from within LDLite (as opposed to changing the view in LDAO, launching LDLite, closing (...) (28 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad)

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