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Re: LDAO Suggestion Mark 2
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Sun, 20 Jun 1999 20:38:45 GMT
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Steve Bliss wrote in message <376d28fd.95944024@lugnet.com>...
> Have you tried setting up some folders and LNK files, and rendering through
> LDLite? What does it make of the LNKs?
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.
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> Steve
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> On Sat, 19 Jun 1999 12:52:59 GMT, jamien@interworx.com.au (Jamie Obrien)
> wrote:
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> > 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. • Ehh, ldraw works with 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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| (...) That's Windows recognizing the LNK file, and launching the actual DAT file into LDLite. LDLite doesn't know a thing about LNK files. What I meant was whether or not LDLite would recognize a referenced file which was actually a LNK, not a DAT (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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