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Re: LDAO Suggestion Mark 2
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Thu, 1 Jul 1999 16:30:11 GMT
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JSPROAT@GEOCITIES.avoidspamCOM
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Steve Bliss wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Jul 1999 06:31:21 GMT, Paul Gyugyi <paul@gyugyi.com> wrote:
> > Should we add a search path in the ldraw.ini file?
> A definable search path would be good. Some ideas:
> 1. An ini-file setting.
Definitely.
> 3. An environment variable. This would be L3P-friendly.
> 4. A command-line option. Not necessarily a good idea (how many people
> launch LDLite from the command line? I'd guess very few), but LDAO could
> pass stuff this way.
Both IMHO are necessary. I do all my non-LDAO (which is quite a bit)
LDraw/LDLite stuff from the command-line. VC++ doesn't make it *that* hard
to implement exotic command-line parameters, especially if one uses
getopt(). I don't know how VB handles it, though...
> 6. A meta-command, in the main model file.
I have another idea.
I'm all for making command-line parameters available in the DAT file in a
meta-command. That way, one could specify default viewing angle, default bg
color, etc. as well as search path and any new command-line options if /
when they're implemented. The rendering application could just ignore
options it doesn't understand.
It might look like, I dunno, something like this:
0 FILE SOMEFILE.DAT
0 CMDLINE -a0.5,0,0.86,0.43,1,-0.25,-1,0,2
0 CMDLINE -B3 -MC
0 CMDLINE -etc.
> > One can imagine LDLite adding support
> > for cylinder and disc primitives.
> Yes, one can. Really, really.
:-D
> > In that case, you might want to
> > create an /ldlite_p directory, place it first in the search path, and
> > put an optimized version of stud.dat therein.
> That would be good. :)
Agreed!
Cheers,
- jsproat
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Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@geocities.com>
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/5249/
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| (...) One problem I have with the command-line option is that the command line is already long enough. But that doesn't mean that having the option is bad. (...) I was worried about the user more than the developer. (...) In VB, there's a function (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) A definable search path would be good. Some ideas: 1. An ini-file setting. 2. Several ini-file settings, similar to the [Views] section. Let the user setup as many different ones as he wants, and pick one at render-time. 3. An environment (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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