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Re: Lossless outlining (Was: [ldraw.org] Progress)
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lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
Date: 
Mon, 7 Jun 1999 13:11:46 GMT
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On Sat, 5 Jun 1999 03:09:01 GMT, "John VanZwieten"
<john_vanzwieten@msn.com> wrote:

> In lugnet.cad.dev, Steve Bliss writes:
> > [1] In the next version of LDAO, the stand-alone inliner will allow you
> > better control over the inlining process.  Specifically, there will be
> > options/buttons to:
> > 
> > - Select all subfiles
> > - Unselect all
> > - Inline only models, submodels, and unofficial parts & primitives
> > - Keep or drop the original line
> > - Recurse through inlined code
> 
> 
> This will be great!  Would there be any way to add an option to leave out the
> file information comments lines of subfiles (or maybe just all comments) when
> inlining?  If you use several levels of subparts when creating a part, then
> inline it, it takes a while to delete all those cumbersome comment lines.

I thought about that, but I was concerned about the burden of
differentiating between comments and random extensions to LDraw (ie, new
meta-commands).

Maybe LDAO should provide/maintain a list of known meta-commands?  Then the
Inliner could happily zap any straight comment lines, but leave the
functional stuff.

Steve



Message has 1 Reply:
  Re: Lossless outlining (Was: [ldraw.org] Progress)
 
(...) That is an interesting idea. -- Terry K -- (27 years ago, 7-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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  Re: Lossless outlining (Was: [ldraw.org] Progress)
 
(...) This will be great! Would there be any way to add an option to leave out the file information comments lines of subfiles (or maybe just all comments) when inlining? If you use several levels of subparts when creating a part, then inline it, it (...) (27 years ago, 5-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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