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(...) <snip> (...) Is it correct to assume because of this, the 48 and s dirs must not be added to the part search directories list? Roland (18 years ago, 31-Jul-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I've decided to drop the whole option for now, so the 48 dir is only used if parts reference to it by 48/xxx.dat . Roland (18 years ago, 31-Jul-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) <snip> As might be expected, Steve's replies were correct (as far as I know, anyway ;-). (...) While it's true that this isn't all that useful, it can still be done, even though some parts reference primitives from the 48\ directory directly. (...) (18 years ago, 30-Jul-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Not exactly. The files in the ldraw\p\48 directory are all based on a 48-faceted approximation of a circle. The regular primitives in ldraw\p are all based on 16-facets. Just because a file is in one directory does not mean a corresponding (...) (18 years ago, 30-Jul-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hello all, Still working on the LDraw loader. The 48 directory in ldraw\p, as far I understand it, is a 'alternative' source for primitives, not? Jet I see some (unofficial) files using type 1 lines with the 48\ attached to the part name reference (...) (18 years ago, 29-Jul-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) It's my work system, but I rarely use 2005. Most of my customer projects demand use of Delphi 6 Pro. Because that's what the customer itself owns. I maintain their code so I have to use their tools. Because of this I don't justify spending (...) (18 years ago, 27-Jul-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Probably. As I was reading the thread it was *loading* the MPD file that was considered two-pass, and my algorithm is definitely only one-pass for that (and no extra fixups after reading it all). OTOH, if the file should be rendered on screen (...) (18 years ago, 27-Jul-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Don't know about that, source-wise (all my work projects are still Delphi, Win32 only). In .NET you definitely don't have to care about the language an assembly was written in, you just use it. (...) If that is your work development system, I (...) (18 years ago, 27-Jul-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I suspect there's two definitions of "pass" at work here. I would consider a two pass algorithm to be anything requiring two loops (which we must have either way as their is no reference order specified in MPDs). Another way of considering it (...) (18 years ago, 27-Jul-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Actually I can't get my head around 'searching for a file in the cache' as equivalent to 'do a second pass of the source file'. Every part is searched for in the cache. Each source line is only read and parsed once. What am I not (...) (18 years ago, 26-Jul-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Delphi 2005 (9) is part of Borland Developer Studio (BDS) 2005. It also contains C# Builder and Delphi for .net compilers. But I mainly use Delphi for win 32 development. Since BDS 2006 C++ Builder is also included in the suite. But I decided (...) (18 years ago, 26-Jul-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Is Delphi 2005 Delphi (Pascal) only? I've got BDS2006 at work and that contains both Delphi and C++ and C#. Going .NET would make it easy (?) to use a C++ library from Delphi, I think. (18 years ago, 26-Jul-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Thanks for the pointers, I'm working with Delphi 2005 Pro win32 at the moment (LD4DModeler was written in Delphi 6 Pro). So I can't use you're library. But I will certainly take a look at it. I sometimes write stuff in C++, but for a living (...) (18 years ago, 26-Jul-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Lars C. Hassing wrote: [snip detailed explanation] Thanks for the insight of you're L3P ldraw reader routines. (...) If you mean by public, public to all children and not the whole world, this fits perfectly in Anders Isaksson vision. See my reply (...) (18 years ago, 26-Jul-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) This is actually very logical. And it fits in the description from the 2000 post pointed to by Lars. So all objects in the mpd are available for recursive children of the main part, being the first place to search. (...) I don't think stuff in (...) (18 years ago, 26-Jul-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) That is a two pass algorithm. It's optimised by only searching files that have already appeared but the search in stage II is a second pass. Tim (18 years ago, 26-Jul-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) What about the following algorithm (assuming everything is cached): - whenever a file reference is read, search for the file in the cache. if not found, add it as an empty file and flag it as 'incomplete' - whenever a 'file' is seen, search (...) (18 years ago, 26-Jul-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) It seems to me that an MPD is functionally equal to a disk folder which has been added to the (beginning of the) search path for parts. No more, no less. If a part is found in the search path it is used, if it is not found it is ignored (with (...) (18 years ago, 26-Jul-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) You're right, but Jacob invented the MPD, so I guess I just followed his wish, though I would have preferred the scoping. Also he suggests a way to get scoping anyway: "0 FILE house1/house1.dat" which nicely reflects the storage on the disk. (...) (18 years ago, 26-Jul-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Wow, that's impressive. I'm pretty sure it's accidental, too. (Accidental on my part; your L3P parser was obviously there first.) (...) LDView only has one file open at a time also (unless I'm mis-remembering my implementation), since the (...) (18 years ago, 26-Jul-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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