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Subject:	Unofficial directory (with non-standard name lenght)? (Was: LDView 3.1 on Mac OS X!)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad.dev
Followup-To:	lugnet.cad.dev
Date:	Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:57:44 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.mac, Allen Smith wrote:

I’m delighted to see another developer supporting the Macintosh.

I’m glad that Bricksmith can make use of them. Does it have a UI to add new directories to the part search path?

Nope, so I had feared it might not be able to access them. However, I’ve checked and Unofficial is hard-coded as the unofficial parts directory name (in Source/Other/MacLDraw.h, for those following along at home). You can set the LDraw directory, of course, so it will just look for an “Unofficial” directory within that.

Interesting. I wonder if it was just a coincidence that we both chose the same hard-coded directory for Unofficial parts, or if Bricksmith’s author saw that I had used it. I suspect the former, since LDView didn’t work on the Mac.

Yeah, LDraw/Unofficial just seemed like the logical choice. That was feature that went nowhere, though. I never even documented it, because I didn’t think anyone else supported it. (L3P?) I really wish LDraw would define a standard Unofficial parts folder. Right now I just set the Finder’s label color to red for any unofficial parts and then blithely dump them in my LDraw folder.

Allen

So far, we have maintained the old DOS convention of max. 8 chars and no SPACE used in folder names. I realize that fewer and fewer programs and utils are made in DOS evironments, maybe I’m the only to still make quick ‘n’ dirty programs in Borland TC++ or in its likeness.

But yet, I haven’t heard anyting of letting go of the standrad either.

My question is: Do we still maintain the DOS naming convention in LDraw?

/Tore

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		Re: Unofficial directory (with non-standard name lenght)? (Was: LDView 3.1 on Mac OS X!)
--snip-- (...) Personally I'm against maintaining it. It forces us into strange naming conventions for something which probably affects no users of the software. Tim (18 years ago, 28-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)

		Re: Unofficial directory (with non-standard name lenght)? (Was: LDView 3.1 on Mac OS X!)
(...) With tongue slightly in cheek, I believe it is time to accept the technological advancements of 1984. If DOS wasn't obsolete the day it was written, it definitely was within a few years. DOS filenames tend to be inscrutable, and there just (...) (18 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)

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		Re: LDView 3.1 on Mac OS X!
I'm delighted to see another developer supporting the Macintosh. (...) Yeah, LDraw/Unofficial just seemed like the logical choice. That was feature that went nowhere, though. I never even documented it, because I didn't think anyone else supported (...) (18 years ago, 27-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)

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