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Re: L3PAO Look-a-like for Linux ?
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Sun, 20 Apr 2003 14:08:05 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Jason S. Mantor writes:
OK, I'm lazy :P  I love the combination of MLCAD and POV-Ray for making
renderings of LEGO(R) projects and I've been totally spoiled by L3PAO.
Now that I've moved almost everything off my Windows Partition and
I'm working under Linux, I *REALLY* miss L3PAO.  It can't seem to find
ledit when run under WINE so it refuses to run : ( I was thinking to
myself that it would be a good project for me to un-learn VB and
learn C under Linux to build a gui app like it, but we just had our
first child and bought a house so I have zero time : (  Does such an
app already exist ?

I'm not sure about the WINE aspect of your problem, but you might
be able to fool L3PAO into using ldglite instead of ledit by
renaming the linux ldglite executable to ledit or ledit.exe.  It
might even start up in ledit emulation mode when renamed that way.
(I think I set it up to look for "edit" inside the program name)

I'm curious, which features of L3PAO do you use that you can't do
with MLCAD under WINE?

Don



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  Re: L3PAO Look-a-like for Linux ?
 
ummm unless I'm mistaken, MLCAD doesn't create POV files or interface to L3P. L3P does create POV files, but it's a commandline tool and, like I said, I've been spolied by L3PAO which is a GUI front end to L3P : ) (...) (22 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad)

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  L3PAO Look-a-like for Linux ?
 
OK, I'm lazy :P I love the combination of MLCAD and POV-Ray for making renderings of LEGO(R) projects and I've been totally spoiled by L3PAO. Now that I've moved almost everything off my Windows Partition and I'm working under Linux, I *REALLY* miss (...) (22 years ago, 20-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad)

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