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(...) About 6 years ago there was a build of ldglite ran in 64bit linux on an alpha processor. It could possibly be made to work again but I can't really recommend it because the old LEDIT tutorial is now long gone from here: (URL) the tutorial it'd (...) (16 years ago, 2-May-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.leocad)
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I'm just starting out with LDraw and I'm having a heck of a time trying to get anything running under my 64 bit Ubuntu 7.10 system. I'm mostly interested in LeoCAD, since it is the only native Linux building system that I know of. Since there are no (...) (16 years ago, 2-May-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.leocad)
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(...) Hmmm, a partially obscured window. Sounds like a clue. I'll have to run some tests with a side mounted dock on the G4. And I should probably look back and see what I did on windows when the annoying popup tooltips were driving me nuts. Thanks, (...) (16 years ago, 1-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Nope. It starts out partially under my dock, which I keep on the left. I can't remember if I ever moved it completely out from under the dock or not, but I'm pretty sure I did. (As a note, I looked around, and it appears that (...) (16 years ago, 1-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Arrgh, that's not good. It worked for me whenever I had a problem like that. I guess I'll have to use the OSX flush function. Are you by chance using partially transparent windows, or something fancy like that? (...) It's hooked to an ldlite (...) (16 years ago, 1-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) The -n4 didn't have any noticeable effect. What exactly does n4 mean. I know it means "draw to back buffer", but what does the n and the 4 mean? --Travis (16 years ago, 1-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hmmm, I guess that's slightly different from the GMA X3100, which seemed to work for me. If you get a chance, try and run it with -n4 on the command line. That should render everything in the back buffer like 99.99% of the opengl programs out (...) (16 years ago, 30-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Here's my info: Vendor: Intel Inc. Renderer: Intel GMA 950 OpenGL Engine Version: 1.2 APPLE-1.4.56 --Travis (16 years ago, 30-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Sorry for not responding, but I didn't remember to look at it while I was at home. I'll try to do so tonight. (...) Actually, my Intel MacBook (one of the original ones) has Intel motherboard graphics. Probably a different model than yours, (...) (16 years ago, 29-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Sorry about the self reply, but now I'm really curious about this. I found myself an old G4 EMac with a Geforce2 and OSX Tiger for testing and everything worked ok. It also worked on an Intel Macbook with the Intel GMA X3100 graphics. So I (...) (16 years ago, 29-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Thank you very much for this part. Now I can complete all the models on my webside. cu mikeheide (16 years ago, 24-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi Ryan, (...) Just completed it: (URL) (16 years ago, 24-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) No, I use glfinish(). I've had all sorts of problems over the years with Apple because I often render in the front buffer to emulate the various ancient ldlite immediate rendering modes. Does it update ok when you spin the model with the (...) (16 years ago, 24-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) That one works for LPub. The buffer isn't getting flushed to the screen right. I have to resize or force a redraw in order. Are you calling CGLFlushDrawable at the end of your drawing code? --Travis (16 years ago, 24-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Ok, give (URL) this one> a try. (16 years ago, 23-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Good idea. (...) I'll be happy to be your Tiger test subject, but I can only test Intel. --Travis (16 years ago, 23-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Since I already lost this once, I'm gonna stash it here just in case. To compile something that runs on Tiger from a makefile on Leopard add this: CFLAGS+= -mmacosx-version-min=10.4 -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk LDFLAGS+= -isysroot (...) (16 years ago, 23-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Hi Rosco, I've uploaded lpub.vcproj to sourceforge. I brought everything down into a clean directory and it built for me. Kevin (16 years ago, 23-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) For what it's worth, Tiger will run on a 300 MHz G3. While it certainly wasn't fast, I don't recall ever encountering any software that simply said "I need a G4". That's not to say there's no reason why such software couldn't or shouldn't (...) (16 years ago, 21-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) And if you don't have QT properly configured, having the .vcproj probably won't do you any good anyway. --Travis (16 years ago, 21-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) No idea. Whatever it is, it needs Tiger, though, since LDView is built to require Tiger. It presumably needs a G4. --Travis (16 years ago, 21-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) That's interesting. I built it on a new laptop with the version of XCode that comes with leopard. However I just added the arch targets to the old makefile (but missed one of the libraries). So I guess the default is to target leopard only. I (...) (16 years ago, 21-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Hi Rosco, If you have Qt properly configured, you should be able to create the .vcproj by doing this in the folder that contains lpub.pro: qmake lpub.pro Kevin (16 years ago, 21-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Actually, I don't have a PPC Mac, just the previous OS version. I believe that if you don't get everything right for the "universal" stuff, it will give you an error at link time. I know that's what it does to me if any of the libraries aren't (...) (16 years ago, 21-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Err, I rushed it and sorta botched the build. So a few files got built with no PPC code. I rebuilt it, but didn't get a chance to borrow an older machine to test it on yet. Hey, maybe (probably) you know this. What's involved in supporting a (...) (16 years ago, 20-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Hi Rosco, One will magically appear sometime this weekend, after I've had a chance to confirm that it works correctly. Kevin (16 years ago, 18-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Well, I suspect that LPub is not rendering using LDView, because the images were already calculated using LDGLite. The rendering is still a long path in the procerss of preparing a page. LPub caches part images for parts lists, and assembly (...) (16 years ago, 18-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) The updated CVS doesn't appear to have a .vcproj file :( ROSCO (16 years ago, 18-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Apparently this is working for others, but when I run it (on an original MacBook in OS 10.4), all I get is a bus error. Did you compile it as a Leopard app? --Travis (16 years ago, 18-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) in CAR.DAT - but the other models I've tried are looking good. (...) Just tried it, and that seems to work too. (I can't tell much difference, though.) (...) It's pretty cool! I'm going to be busy with other things the next few days, but I (...) (16 years ago, 18-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) ShowHighlightLines and ConditionalHighlights did the trick! Kevin (16 years ago, 17-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) In a Mac-specific code section, you could set the desired file type to *.app, and then force a directory to be chosen. Then when you get the path back, append /Contents/MacOSX/LDView onto the end of the filename. (Note: I'm not 100% sure about (...) (16 years ago, 17-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) That's the default thickness. What are you seeing? Keep in mind that edges are off by default, so unless you've turned them on, you won't get any edges at all. You can use -ShowHighlightLines=1 to force them on (preferably with (...) (16 years ago, 17-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) I added -EdgeThickness=1 to the LDView args, and didn't see any behavior change. Any ideas? Kevin (16 years ago, 17-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Should I use a different approach? Will things work if I look for LDView.app? Kevin (16 years ago, 17-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Jim, the latest LDView I sent you should probably work. Note that you have to select the actual LDView executable inside the app wrapper when prompted for LDView by LPub. (...) -EdgeThickness=<value> will set the edge line thickness, in (...) (16 years ago, 17-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Hi Jim, I use the one Don Heyse told us about here: (URL) Also, check with Travis about an LPub compatible version of LView. In lpub.cpp, you can change the code to switch to LDView. Look for renderer. Comment out ldglite, and uncomment (...) (16 years ago, 17-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Hi Jim, I use the one Don Heyse told us about here: (URL) Also, check with Travis about an LPub compatible version of LDGLite. In lpub.cpp, you can change the code to switch to LDView. Look for renderer. Comment out ldglite, and uncomment (...) (16 years ago, 17-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) I reuploaded the images making sure I put them up in binary mode. I logged out of sourceforge, and then checked LPub4 CVS. It shows the images in the images directory with the correct version numbers. Good luck! Kevin (16 years ago, 17-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) I think that explains it. (I remember a similar situation with LDView once.) Happily everything seems to be in sync now and I am pleased to report I am able to build LPub without a problem. Now I just need to experiment! Just to check, what (...) (16 years ago, 17-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Just as a note on this to avoid any panicking, sourceforge.net anonymous CVS access uses a separate copy of the CVS files, and that separate copy takes time to update. So when changes are committed by a developer, it takes some amount of time (...) (16 years ago, 17-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Looks like maybe the images haven't become available yet - there's nothing in (URL) and I see "RCC: Error: Cannot find file 'images/actual.png'" when make tries to make qrc_lpub.cpp. (I get the impression it sometimes takes a while for (...) (16 years ago, 17-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Hi, Sourceforge admins wiped the CVS repository clean. With guidance from Travis, I recreated the LPub4 repository, and made sure the images were transferred in binary mode. When I brought it all down to my Mac from sourceforge, and did a (...) (16 years ago, 17-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) The new lpub.pro was bad. Also the original creation of the CVS repository was done in a non-standard way. I've removed almost all the files, but have also asked the admins from sourceforge to wipe the project clean so we can start over. Email (...) (16 years ago, 15-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) OK, I decided this is as good a time as any to download VC++ express :) But when I try to open lpub.vcproj, I get: --- The following error has occurred during XML parsing: File: \\Rocklobster\rosco\...pub.vcproj Line: 6 Column: 2 Error (...) (16 years ago, 15-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Thanks, I've got it now. I get some compile errors with parseerror.cpp and parseerror.h - that the functions don't match their prototypes. I see that parseerror.h was last uploaded today but parseerror.cpp is 5 months old. Is there a new (...) (16 years ago, 15-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Hi Jim, My apologies. I've uploaded a new lpub.pro Kevin (16 years ago, 14-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Great news. I downloaded qt-mac-opensource-src-4.3.4 from (URL) and was able to set it up with: ./configure make make install I wanted to confirm that LPub would build on my Mac, but [/path/to/]qmake -macx -o Makefile lpub.pro prints the (...) (16 years ago, 14-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Sorry for responding to my own post. I forgot to mention that LPub 4 code on sourceforge works with Qt 4.3.4, the opensource edition. Kevin (16 years ago, 14-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi All, While LPub 4 is not ready for prime time, it is available for programmers out there that are interested in helping out. The source is under CVS as the project LPub4. There is an lpub.pro and Makefile for OS X, and lpub.vcproj for those using (...) (16 years ago, 14-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Actually it turned out that despite the warning message my settings did work from a remote ssh login as a different user. The old AGL code, while it worked locally (that was a surprise), did not work remotely and produced the same warning (...) (16 years ago, 30-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) OK, now that's just plain weird. Glad to hear it's fixed, though. --Travis (16 years ago, 29-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) If you used my code as an example for Core GL setup, then the error was due to a bug in my code. If not, put the following in your CGLPixelFormatAttribute array, and it should work even via ssh: CGLPixelFormatAttribute attrs = (...) (16 years ago, 29-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) problem fixed. extern void qt_mac_set_native_me...bar(bool); qt_mac_set_native_me...bar(true); Kevin (16 years ago, 29-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) I'm guessing it's related, but there's presumably something you did that QT Designer doesn't do, or vice versa. Obviously QT is designed so that apps can be written completely without using QT Designer. One thing you might do is create a (...) (16 years ago, 28-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Hmmm..... one major difference is that I didn't use the designer for any of my GUI. I wonder if that is why things are different. Kevin (16 years ago, 28-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) I figured that Development would be use by parts authors. I was offering it as an alternative to D:work_in_progress. LSynth it is. Kev (16 years ago, 28-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Perfect - many thx! Don't think there is any need for "development" but "<LDRAWDIR>LSynth" wouldn't hurt. You could then store all constraints and synthesis parts in that folder without the need to mix them with the official parts or rebuild (...) (16 years ago, 27-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) LDView has its main menu inside the .ui file for the main window. It was created and is maintained in QT Designer. Take a look at LDView.ui to see if there's anything obviously different there. --Travis (16 years ago, 27-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) All I get is a single menu item in the menu bar above the desktop. It says LPub. The contents of the menu are not from LPub though. I've built LPub using QMainWindow. It has a function that returns a pointer to the menuBar(). I build all my (...) (16 years ago, 27-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) I'm not too familiar with Qt or Trolltech's recommendations, so maybe someone else can help work out what you need to do. The Mac version of LDView 3.2 is a Qt app, so maybe Travis can get you started. The application bundle structure applies (...) (16 years ago, 27-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Just out of curiosity, what IS in the menu bar when the LPub window is the current active window? --Travis (16 years ago, 27-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) OK, that's very very strange. LDView's main menu "just worked" (mostly). I had to do some fixups to make it fit the Mac style, but it was perfectly usable without those. It "just works" when compiled with QT 4 also. (...) Menu" on a Mac isn't (...) (16 years ago, 27-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) I believe a MAC version mklist utility used to generate the PARTS.LST file comes bundled with the OS-X version of ldglite. Source code is available, so anyone can build it on whatever platform they like. There may be better ways to build the (...) (16 years ago, 27-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) So, popup menus work, but my main menu does not show up. I found this information on trolltech: (URL) I don't know what it means to run out of a bundle. Qmake created lpub.app Contents Info.plist MacOS PkgInfo Info.plist contains <?xml version (...) (16 years ago, 27-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) <snip> LPub does not need a total list of parts, so it doesn't have to scan all the paths. It does need the titles of parts that are used however. Since parts.lst is a precomupted list of some of them, LPub reads it and puts the contents in an (...) (16 years ago, 27-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Hi Don, It worked! Now I just have to figure out how to get my main menu and popup menus to work on the Mac from Qt! Thanks! Kevin (16 years ago, 27-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Thanks guys for all the help. I grabbed BrickSmith and moved the ldraw folder that came with it to /Library. I wanted both anyhow so it seemed to be the way to go. Then I built a new (universal?) ldglite with your static libpng and some (...) (16 years ago, 27-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) One of those. (...) No. They don't distribute the full library; you would have to merge together all the updates with the original LDraw DOS package. Not fun. (...) Wherever you want it. If Bricksmith is installed, you can find out where the (...) (16 years ago, 26-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) How about I send you a universal binary of a static libpng? (If I remember correctly, it was a real pain to make.) (...) I think I got mine via BrickSmith, which is kind of sad, really, but I just checked, and LDView will happily download the (...) (16 years ago, 26-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Yeah, gotta work on that... But hey, the kids just got a macbook! And, as of yesterday, it has a sneaky ssh login just for me so I can soak up some of the idle cycles from across the living room. But...my notes on libpng for OS-X are about 5 (...) (16 years ago, 26-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Thanks Willy! I'll work on this very soon. Kevin (16 years ago, 25-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) As will LPub before it is made available to the public. Thus the comment about short sighted. Now that I have an example on what to do, I'll implement that instead. There is one class that will have to be changed, and no one else needs to know (...) (16 years ago, 25-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Sorry to everyone else for having this on a public forum, but since Kevin doesn't appear to be receiving my emails, I feel that I need to post this here. I just resent all the messages I've sent you in the past month or so. I strongly suspect (...) (16 years ago, 24-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hi Kevin, I bet you've already found what Travis's talking about; if not the tutorial can be found here: (URL) I used <LDRAWDIR>Unofficial_Parts since MLCad was the first prog supporting unofficial parts but agreed with Travis and Allen to (...) (16 years ago, 24-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Is PARTS.LST the file that gets generated by some DOS utility in the original LDraw distribution? You can't rely on that being present. Not being able to rely on a DOS utility, Bricksmith reads the part library and generates its own XML parts (...) (16 years ago, 24-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) I understand and respect wisdom of the the LSC's decision to not define where to store unofficial parts. I was wondering if the LSC would consider defining how one defines the paths to unofficial directories? At least that would give us some (...) (16 years ago, 24-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hi Travis, I did not get any emails from you about the code tree. Would you please try again? Thanks, Kevin (16 years ago, 24-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) You're welcome. Can you verify that you got my email messages regarding the source tree you sent me? I never got any responses to the messages I sent you, and I want to make sure they got through. --Travis (16 years ago, 24-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hi Travis, Thanks for the help. I have a .pro from Orion. I have to update it, because the list of files has changed, but that should be straight forward. Thank you very much, Kevin (16 years ago, 24-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Additionally, LDView is hard-coded to look in the <LDrawDir>/Unofficial/Parts and <LDrawDir>/Unofficial/p directories when it doesn't find a part in its search path. It then attempts to download unofficial parts from the part tracker into that (...) (16 years ago, 24-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) The LSC voted on that, and officially declined to specify an official location for unofficial parts. (...) You have to install the dev tools from the OS CD (DVD?) that came with your Mac. They aren't installed by default (which is probably a (...) (16 years ago, 24-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) LDView and MLCad shows a way for solving this issue. In the MLCad.ini you can define alternate search path for parts, so you do not have to mix official and unofficial parts. Also LDView has the possibility to search in different directories. (...) (16 years ago, 24-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I think those and other development tools are available as an optional install from your system DVD, if they're not already present on the machine. Jim (16 years ago, 23-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) You are more knowledgable on this topic than I am. As far as the assembly images go, at least for now I'm at the mercy of LDGlite. I've made good use of the superb document and specifications on LDraw.org. I want to thank all involved in (...) (16 years ago, 23-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Kevin L. Clague wrote: Hi Kevin, (...) I was refering to the use of unofficial and custom parts and the possibilities to include them into BI without the need to store them in the <LDRAWDIR>Parts folder or include them in (...) (16 years ago, 23-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hi Willy, Thanks! Background images are already in as is ldconfig.ldr. The arrows come from your generator in MLCad. When you say unofficials and custom folders, what are you thinking? Since it uses ldglite, there are some rederer features I (...) (16 years ago, 22-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) custom folders, background images ... furthermore are those arrows coming from MLCad or has 4.0 its own generator? w. (16 years ago, 22-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Thank you to those of you that responded to this here or via email; I now have some good feedback, and it appears to be working correctly on quad-core machines. If anyone has access to a quad-core (or more) Linux box or Mac, I'd still like to (...) (16 years ago, 14-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Thanks Jim! I've spent weeks of vacation time working on this. Good thing I have a lot more. Kevin (16 years ago, 13-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) It looks like this project is coming along nicely! Great work. Jim (16 years ago, 13-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I actually saw the "ideal num threads" call in the QT 4 documentation when I was trying to figure out how to get the number of CPUs on a Linux box. However, even though the sysconf calls are in a QT-only section of LDView's code, I can't use (...) (16 years ago, 12-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I recently bought an AMD Phenom Quad core running vista 64 bit. I gladly do some tests if you want. I did some thread programming myself and discovered memory/disk bandwidth is the real bottleneck with modern cpu's, just can't get enough data (...) (16 years ago, 12-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi folks, For those interested, I thought I'd give you a peek at LPub 4.0's GUI. I started with and LPub free file well, except for PLI sub kind of metas. I converted the submodels to callouts, placed the callouts, added pointers to the calloutss, (...) (16 years ago, 12-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev) !
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(...) Hi Travis, Qt 4 provides threads. It can tell you how many ideal threads there are (presumably the number of hardware strands). Yes, the instruction set is SPARC, with 64 bit integer registers (31 of those), plus the usual 32, 64, 128 bit (...) (16 years ago, 12-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Thanks. (...) Yowza! In theory it will run on Solaris as long as QT 3.3 is installed, but I'm not sure if anyone has tried that. Note also that it would have to be a 32 bit compile, which may or may not be easy on Solaris. The current source (...) (16 years ago, 12-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hi Travis, Congratulations on getting SMP working in LDView. If you can run on Solaris, I have an 8 core with 8 hardware thread box in my office I could try things on. Maybe you'll only use 32 given the above algorithm. I have access to a two (...) (16 years ago, 12-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I'm working on SMP support in LDView, and I'd like to have someone with a machine with 4 CPU cores test it to see if it works properly on machines with more than 2 CPU cores (my CPU is a dual-core). (SMP is symmetric multi processing: multiple CPUs, (...) (16 years ago, 11-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Thanks Philo! I've limited to dots per inch inch and dots per centimeter. This is nice from a formatting pespective because margins and sizes fall into smaller ranges than with inches and meters. Kevin (16 years ago, 10-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) DPCM might be enough: Photoshop (which can be considered as a reference...) only has DPI and DPCM. Philo (16 years ago, 9-Mar-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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