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Re: Introducing Lic - Lego Instruction Creator (pre-alpha)
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Tue, 2 Oct 2007 21:45:49 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Remi Gagne wrote:
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Hi everyone,
I’ve been lurking here for a few years now, and have been using LDrawfor
quite some time. I finally have something worth saying! In the past few
months I’ve found time to work on a little LDraw application that I’ve been
wanting to develop forever now. I call it Lic (Lego Instruction Creator).
I absolutely love LPub, but I tend to prefer WYSIWYG-based applications, and
get frustrated pretty quickly with manually editing LDraw files - which is
where Lic comes in.
Lic takes a regular LDraw model as input, and basically generates the same
kind of final instruction images as LPub. But instead of meta commands, Lic
provides a fully interactive preview GUI, which you use to control page
layout. The GUI also gives you a hierarchical tree view of the overall
instruction book, which makes navigating the book easy.
Right now, Lic is still in an early proof-of-concept stage. It’s just
reached the point where I’m convinced it can work, and work well. There’s
not a lot of features or functionality, and it can be a pain to get up and
running, but I believe the underlying framework is solid and extensible, and
worth building on. I’d like to pass it to you, the community, to see what you
think.
I’ve put together a little website for
Lic, with more info, screenshots, etc. Given its early state, I don’t want
to put up a fully public download yet, but here’s a
link where anyone
interested can grab a copy. Feel free to pass the link (or zip file) to
anyone else you think may be interested.
Before running Lic, be sure to check out the
installation instructions. Lic
itself needs no installation, but does require a handful of libraries
(Python, PyOpengl, GTK, etc). I know installing a bunch of stuff just to run
this one app is a lot to ask, but if people find Lic useful and worthwhile,
I’ll know it’s worth spending time to streamline the installation. I would
never release an app to the general public with such absurd requirements!
What do you think? Is an app like Lic useful, worth developing further? Or
should I crawl back to my hole and mind my own business? ;)
Best regards,
Remi
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Hi Remi,
Maybe you didn’t know but I am working on a WYSIWYG version of LPub, where
there is no manual editing of the LDraw file. So far, almost everything has GUI
point and click kind of interface with support for multiple steps per page, and
callouts.
It is C++ based and written using the Qt programming tool set, so building
targets for the PC, Mac and Linux should be a matter of what platform you build
on.
Never one to tell people what to do, I welcome your effort in LIC.
If you’d like to help with LPub 4 instead of LIC, drop me a note. If not,
have a great time creating your own application!
Kevin
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| (...) Hi Kevin, I was hoping to hear from you! Yep, I knew you were working on a WYSIWYG LPub - you've mentioned the idea here in the past. I just had no idea how far along you were, or if you had even started. I tried contacting you a handful of (...) (17 years ago, 4-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| Hi everyone, I've been lurking here for a few years now, and have been using LDrawfor quite some time. I finally have something worth saying! In the past few months I've found time to work on a little LDraw application that I've been wanting to (...) (17 years ago, 27-Sep-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX) !!
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