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Re: New LDraw based editor... GLIDE. Click authors required.
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Date: 
Tue, 22 Jun 2004 14:35:36 GMT
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On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 01:40:04PM +0000, Dan wrote:
To see the standard so far take a look at:

http://www.mr-bucket.co.uk/GLIDE/LCD_File_Format.html

Should the format perhaps be changed so that LCD info could be included
inline in a valid DAT file?  Perhaps make all the lines start with a "0
LCD" before anything else?  Then, when reading a DAT file, a program can
recognize and parse LCD info, in addition to looking for the .lcd file.

Does that make sense?  Do you think it's worth the effort?

I think connection data is really cool, and we should try to make it
part of the standard library.

--
Dan Boger
dan@peeron.com



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  Re: New LDraw based editor... GLIDE. Click authors required.
 
The it would be slick to have the LCD info in the dat file, but it might complicate issues being dicussed by the Ldraw committee : ( It seems that pov style includes aren't allowd in official files either so maybe keeping it seperate for a while (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.lcd, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
  Re: New LDraw based editor... GLIDE. Click authors required.
 
(...) Long-term, making connection data a part of the library would be awesome. Short-term, getting a working implementation should be the focus. Dan (Bennett) - would you like some publicity for GLIDE and click authors on LDraw.org? I can't spare (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.lcd, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)

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  Re: New LDraw based editor... GLIDE. Click authors required.
 
Hi Glide has been on hold now for about a month but its back in development. You can look forward to clicking bricks in about two to three weeks. Once I have the system implemented is there anyone out there who would be prepared to start writing (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.lcd, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)

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