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Re: LDAO Suggestion Mark 2
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Sun, 20 Jun 1999 17:47:12 GMT
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Have you tried setting up some folders and LNK files, and rendering through
LDLite? What does it make of the LNKs?
Steve
On Sat, 19 Jun 1999 12:52:59 GMT, jamien@interworx.com.au (Jamie Obrien)
wrote:
> Hi, OK some people seem to be a little confused, i'll try to explain a
> little better.
>
> In LDAO instead of the ListView where all the models are currently
> displayed, we Create a List on the left part of the window (Call it
> Folders List), and on the Right we list all the Models for the
> currently selected item in the Folders List.
>
> The user gets to make up whatever folders they wish, BUT there is
> always at least 1 folder, All Models, which lists all the models
> currently in the ldraw\models directory.
>
> The user can move a model from any Folder to any other Folder, but the
> actual physical DAT file NEVER moves, it always remains in the
> ldraw\models directory. You can do this using Windows LNK files. They
> provide shortcuts or alias' to a file. This would enable this to work
> with ldraw without breaking it or needing to create any search
> routines. It also allows a model to be moved to multiple folders.
>
> Example: You could have a Black Tron folder that contains all your
> Black Tron Models, but you could also have a 1992 folder that contains
> all the models released in 1992. There may be BlackTron models
> released in 1992 so you can have a model in multiple folders.
>
> The LNK files are pretty simple to deal with (Try making a shortcut on
> the Windows Desktop).
>
> When the user creates folders you would create a folder called ROOT in
> either ldraw, ldraw\models or even in the LDAO directory, this is
> where all the LNK files would be stored. You Propably could use a
> nested folder structure (Like a TreeView) but that would be something
> for further down the Track. Again the LNK files are created, moved and
> deleted, never the DAT file.
>
> IMPORTANT: The user doesn't really need to know how and whats being
> done behind the scenes as long as it works.
>
> I'm doing this from a programming - systems analyst perspective so
> forgive me if i got a little vague. Most of the above is kind of
> simple if you understand the underlying Windows structure (Damn that
> rules me Out!!!!).
>
> At the moment i'm mega low on disk space, but i'll try to get a rough
> sketch and some layouts done and upload them to some WWW somewhere.
>
> As for author folders, why not just implement author Tags in the DAT
> files and even EMAIL or WWW tags that could be used to sort and search
> DAT files in LDAO like Explorer does.
>
> Any comments Welcome!
>
> Jamie Obrien
> jamien@interworx.com.au
>
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| Steve Bliss wrote in message <376d28fd.95944024@l...et.com>... (...) It works, I opened ldlite and moved it to a folder that had a link to a dat file. It recognized it as being a link to a dat, and when I opened, it worked. (...) Ehh, ldraw works (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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