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(...) I use HTTP POST to have my work computers talk to databases and it seems very unreliable because if there is a network problem, the request dies then and there. But if I use email, the server will keep retrying. But I agree, HTTP POST is easy (...) (19 years ago, 11-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I think HTTP is more reliable in unknown environments... From the server side, the HTTP method might be more complex, but keeping the complexity on the server side is better than making complex clients. (...) Right - the clients pushing data (...) (19 years ago, 10-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I find it easier to make a script dump an e-mail with some text in a mailbox than to hack a HTTP POST form. I might not care to implement such an announcement feature in my script, if it was too much work to do. Sending e-mail and posting to (...) (19 years ago, 10-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Using email for the transport here is just adding comlication - why not just have a web API that the remote repos use to notify of updates? Could be a fancy SOAP/REST interface, or a simple POST form. It's not hard to parse email, but it's (...) (19 years ago, 10-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I'm very lazy. ;) Any interest in a copy of the program that generates my overview file? (...) Definitely. Maybe we should take a few moments to think about how to announce the available LDraw files on a web site? Is the NNTP/SMTP header (...) (19 years ago, 10-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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And one more comment. It would be cool to have some automation for site owners as well. For example, Jacob wrote a script that auto-generates descriptions of the files on his site. All he does is move a file to his web folder, and a script runs (...) (19 years ago, 10-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Ok, I'm going to try this again. :) I've learned a few things since my first post. I'm moving this to lugnet.cad.dev BTW. First of all, I know there is interest to in a Massive Ldraw file repository as I have gotten many private emails about the (...) (19 years ago, 10-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Sven Moritz Hein schrieb: (...) I just tried ldglite_1_0_7 and I think it can work for you. Just give it a try. MikeHeide (19 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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Steve Bliss schrieb: (...) It seems that you need a viewer for MPD files but also a collector for all file in the MPD. And I mean really all parts. Please try my MPDCenter at www.michael-heidemann.de. It will collect unofficial files according to a (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) LDLite will do work, but it does bark at you when there's no setting for the LDraw directory. Clicking Cancel gets you past that prompt, and then LDLite draws the file as best it can. (...) I think your idea for a packager is very good. I'd be (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I sure wish I knew how to recreate this...... Kev (19 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Sven, What might be better than sending a viewer app each time awould be send a person an LDR/MPD file and a link to a server running a viewer, perhaps an pared-down version of the java app mentioned in this post: (URL) That would definitely (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Ldglite wouldn't be a good choice (for a packaged solution) -- it needs glut32.dll along with the main ldglite.exe file. But it would be a good choice for a program someone could just grab, unzip, and run. If you pointed them at the download. (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Ldglite is still fairly primitive. For Windows, it's basically just an executable and a dll. If you don't give it an ldraw path, it should just look in the directory containing the model, and in the model file itself (if it's an MPD). Is that (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Exactly this is my problem. It is hard to explain all this to someone who has never heard of LDRAW. What I imagine is something like a (*.zip?)package containing the model file, the parts and the viewer. You just have to send this package per (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Proposed new meta-command: !STANDALONE_LDR
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(...) This is a bit of a problem for me too. I've written scripts to import and export ldraw data from Blender, and naturally I built a model in Blender following that.. but now I'm not allowed to share the original Blender model without removing (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) They will. We haven't quite decided on what it will be but it will be there. -Orion (19 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I'd like to propose the creation of a new meta-command. It is as follows: 0 !STANDALONE_LDR The zero at the beginning of this command MUST be the first byte of the model file. LDraw viewing programs can look for the presence of this command at the (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I forgot to mention that the above programs will of course only work if he creates a directory somewhere that contains P and PARTS sub-directories, and then sets that as his LDraw directory in MLCad and/or LDGLite. --Travis (19 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I'd say your best bet for that is likely MLCAD or LDGLite. Not sure if LDGLite likes directories inside MPDs, but there's a reasonably good chance it will work. On a related note, have you tried using LDGLite or LDView as the renderer in LPub? (...) (19 years ago, 8-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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