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File format for set inventories?
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Sat, 18 Sep 1999 16:38:55 GMT
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Hello again,
For the Lego CAD program I'm developing, I got the idea for allowing users
to load a set inventory file. Then the parts from that set would appear in
a part bin window. As the user dragged parts out of this bin to build their
model, the bin would become emptier, thus reducing the time required to find
the needed parts.
So...I'd like to propose the development of some standard set inventory file
format that other developers would agree to support. I'm sure other
programs could also benefit from this format (inventory tracking programs,
perhaps).
I think it should be text-based like the DAT file format.
A line beginning with '0' would be a comment; for any other line, the first
number would be the quantity of that part, the second number would be the
DAT file name, the third number would be a color code. Or something similar
to this.
Any ideas/suggestions/comments?
-Gary
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: File format for set inventories?
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| Gary Williams: (...) Why? To build a model only with parts from a specific set? Well, why not? I would check out that the people over in lugnet.db.inv, where they already are busy making inventories of sets. I expect they have decided a file format (...) (25 years ago, 18-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
| | | Re: File format for set inventories?
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| (...) This is a great idea, especially if you also give the user the ability to easily build an inventory, for example by dragging parts from a parts list, parts search or catalog view-window onto a parts bin window. This "inventory building" (...) (25 years ago, 20-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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