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(...) Try NSIS. (URL) (21 years ago, 9-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: LDGLite 1.0
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(...) Ah yes, I see the problem. Since I didn't really expect the driver to actually report a change, I neglected to call the glutPostRedisplay() function, so it won't do a full refresh until you do something that makes it redraw. I'll fix that one (...) (21 years ago, 9-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Create an installer for the Dutch MLCad DLL file
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Hi all, Does anyone know a good but easy to use program to create an installer? What I am looking for is an installer that first searches the users computer for the MLCad executable and then puts the DLL file in that directory. I need this since one (...) (21 years ago, 9-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: LDGLite 1.0
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(...) At screen resolution 1024x768, 32bit, issuing the following command ./ldglite100 -le -v800,600 mini.dat puts up the following window (URL) (terminal reports ATi drivers) moving the window (not resizing just moving) changes the contents to (...) (21 years ago, 9-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: LDGLite 1.0
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(...) To be clear, getting trail line when rotating lines is what I could not reproduce. (...) Tom, you don't have an account on my machine, so I don't think this link is going to work :) In ATi mode, trans orange gets some speckles while rotating, (...) (21 years ago, 8-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: LDGLite 1.0
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(...) Thanks, but it sounds like the congrats are a bit premature at this point. Oh well, I guess I can live with 1.0.1 or 1.0.2 or 1.0.99 or whatever... (...) That's interesting. It sounds like I *can* query the driver during a reshape and find out (...) (21 years ago, 8-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: LDGLite 1.0
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(...) Chris (and Don), I can reproduce this. It appears that changing between standard views after editing (not necessarily spinning) will do it. The behavior is actually different for me with the Apple OpenGL versus ATI. With Apple, the trans color (...) (21 years ago, 8-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | LDGLite 1.0
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Don, Congratulations on the 1.0 release. At 800,600 (32bit colors) resolution the ATi driver loads, and then LDGLite switches to the Apple driver (the window behavior and the printout from the terminal is included below) after the window is (...) (21 years ago, 8-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: MBC 0.4b2 (Cocoa) bug fix release
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(...) Oh... rotation is like buttah. Well, as buttery as a PB G3/400 gets :) Thanks. One note so far, the new and open commands leave the previous window as the acitve window. Not a show stopper by any means, but it is unexpected behavior. Hm, (...) (21 years ago, 8-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: announcing TrackDraw (BrickFest preview)
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(...) Well put. Why some people have to criticize when something is done for them for free is beyond my comprehension. James Wilson Dallas, TX (21 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) It's not that we're biased toward MS products, it's just Windows is the most widely used OS and therefore if you want to have to good user base you have to program for Windows. I personally find Linux confusing and prefer using Windows; does (...) (21 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: announcing TrackDraw (BrickFest preview)
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(...) ... (...) One basic difference between TrackDraw and Track Designer is that TrackDraw uses vector-based graphics; Track Designer uses bitmaps. With vector graphics, the drawing can be scaled arbitrarily large, and can be easily transcoded as (...) (21 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hehe, looks like I'll go out in my garden and dig a hole for my LTrax project. :) /Tore (21 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I looked at the presentation on the replacement for Track Designer. You did not explain why a replacement is need or what extra facilities it will have. One of the advantages will be that the code will be available to enhancements can be made. (...) (21 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: announcing TrackDraw (BrickFest preview)
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Don Heyse wrote: ... (...) In short, it's an application platform written for Windows. TrackDraw itself is just a self-contained executable. Unlike traditional Windows applications, it doesn't touch the registry. (...) No, but (...) (21 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: announcing TrackDraw (BrickFest preview)
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(...) If you're willing to spend the hours and hours and hours required to write the project, use whatever you want! Otherwise, you have the choice of using the tool that Cary is working on, or not... I'm not a fan of Microsoft by any means, but I (...) (21 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) OK sorry for posting my negative post about .NET and MICRO$$$$$$$OSFT I just don't understand why I was forced to do all my LEGO videos in MPG just to make happy some idiots "linux and mac users" and why I find that all lugnet cad are (...) (21 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: announcing TrackDraw (BrickFest preview)
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(...) Fantastic news. Thanks for all the hardwork. I am really looking forward to this. Jason Spears | (URL) BrickCentral> | (URL) MichLUG> (21 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Cool, new code! I'll have to go easy on the Microsoft bashing for a little while. By the way, what is .Net anyhow? I thought it was the latest name for SOAP (perhaps that explains the XML). And hey, since TrackDraw seems to import and export (...) (21 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: announcing TrackDraw (BrickFest preview)
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"Eduardo" <eduvazhar@telefonica.net> wrote in message news:HJ8vDK.1zBC@lugnet.com... (...) six months (...) little about (...) (URL) > (...) need to (...) haven't (...) That's pretty harsh. If you don't like it, don't use it. Write your own (...) (21 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: announcing TrackDraw (BrickFest preview)
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(...) Having been one of the more vocal MS bashers around here, let me say that you should never feel the need to apologize for releasing free software to people. You have obviously put a lot of thought and effort into writing a new utility, and you (...) (21 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: announcing TrackDraw (BrickFest preview)
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<snip> (...) There's absolutely nothing wrong with .net, other than the MS haters don't like it and there are more .net apps out there than you think. As someone else has already mentioned, most of the .net framework is built in to XP and even if (...) (21 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | MBC 0.4b2 (Cocoa) bug fix release
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Following Chris finding some crash bugs in MBC 0.4b1, I have quashed these an placed an interim update 0.4d2 on my .Mac site for downloading. (URL) fixes the model rotation issues, crash on new command, crash with some of the early parts primitive (...) (21 years ago, 6-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: announcing TrackDraw (BrickFest preview)
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(...) ... (...) ... I work for Microsoft. Although I am writing TrackDraw for fun, it is helpful in my work job to gain more experience with XML and .NET. I understand Microsoft offends some people. I apologize. (...) ... Track Designer is a pretty (...) (21 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) ... (...) I've heard about Linux-based versions of .NET, but I don't have any personal experience with them. It may be very reasonable to port to Linux -- I think the largest stumbling block will be an accurate port of GDI+, the 2D drawing (...) (21 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Dude, This might be an English as a second language issue but there is a right way and a wrong way to criticise someone about their work. Your way was definately the wrong way -Orion (21 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I wonder if you would feel the same when it was programmed in Java, which needs a Java Virtual Machine installation first. .Net is perfectly acceptable IMHO. I guess it's more an anti Microsoft thing than anything else (the $ is a good hint (...) (21 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) There is nothing wrong with using .NET, and most of the "crap" you refer to is already present in Windows XP. I've developed many .NET programs and they all work well and my clients are all happy with the way .NET works on their systems. (...) (21 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Why you did it in MICRO$OFT .NET now if we want to use your program we need to install 30mb of crap .NET anyway your program is the 1st ine to use it I haven't seen any yet apart from MICRO$OFT LONGHORN a.k.a next windows in 2005 (21 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I noticed you're using .Net So it might actually work on Linux boxes since the Framework is also available for Linux. See: (URL) for more info about a .Net framework implementation. -Frank (21 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Orange in LDraw
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Another solution is to leave things alone, but change the applications palette to suit the user's taste. Color is tricky. (21 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDGLite outputting gobble-dee-goo to terminal window
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(...) Yep, it is cool to have my model as the edit mode screen shot. It is the first model that I created entirely with LDGLite too. I just finished downloading 1.0.0. I'll give you a report as soon as I have had a chance to do some testing. Chris (21 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | announcing TrackDraw (BrickFest preview)
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I've been working on TrackDraw, a replacement for Track Designer, for six months or so. I'll talk about it at BrickFest on Saturday. You can read a little about it, and see the BrickFest PowerPoint slides here: (URL) not ready to release the program (...) (21 years ago, 6-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.cad.dev) !
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| | Re: Star Wars mini models 1st wave render & Orange in part
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(...) Maybe a light source is really close, but the blue seems rather bright. I'll have to try it myself. There's not an official LDraw color for Dark Blue yet, is there? I checked (URL) (...) 484 looks like the right orange to me, based on your (...) (21 years ago, 6-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Star Wars mini models 1st wave render & Orange in part
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(...) It is dark blue. In fact that's the darkest I can get it wiht LDraw color number since I used dithered Black and Blue. (...) Unfortunately no (...) I used 484. 25 seemed too dark. -Orion (21 years ago, 6-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Looks nice, esp. the AT-ST. Colors seem wrong on the Slave I (I think the blue should be dark blue). Missing the TIE Bomber, though. Are the cylinders for the TIE Bomber up yet? Question related to another topic: what color orange did you use (...) (21 years ago, 6-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Orange in LDraw
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(...) I personally prefer 484 over both 25 & 462, although this may be an optical trick (brain sees a progression, and logically picks the middle color as the correct color). But 462 is defintely too yellowish. John P.S. I FTXed Orion's message. (21 years ago, 6-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: LDGLite outputting gobble-dee-goo to terminal window
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(...) Ok, I might've fixed all of this. If not, I'll have to make a 1.1 release real soon because I couldn't wait any longer. Ldglite has finally reached 1.0. Give the OS X executable a spin and see what I missed. (URL) the way, Tom Bozzo sent me a (...) (21 years ago, 6-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Orange in LDraw
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I did a color comparison of the color orange in LDraw: (URL) brick on the left is the current LDraw color 462 The brick in the middle is color 484, the dither of Yellow and Red (the dither of Red and Yellow, 334, is currently defined as Gold Chrome) (...) (21 years ago, 6-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LEdit Command line question [DAT]
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(...) The only way to do this with LEdit is to create your own part file, consisting of one line: 1 16 0 -24 20 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3001.dat If you store that file in your ldraw\parts directory, you can use it in LEdit as a part, in place of 3001.dat. (...) (21 years ago, 6-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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