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Re: ldglite (ldlite for OpenGL and Linux) new stuff
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Date: 
Thu, 3 Feb 2000 13:24:25 GMT
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"Don Heyse" <dheyse@hotmail.spam.go.away.com> writes:

I also love the way it [LDLITE] hooks into Netscape and I'm hoping
to control it from Emacs someday.

Cool!  That is my long term goal with LDraw-mode, too.  I'm hoping to
be able to make Emacs/LDraw-mode communicate (over X?) with some CAD
system.  That will give me the power and flexibility of Emacs combined
with the joy of the LDraw format.

The best I can do right now is to fire up LDLITE with "poll for
changes mode" under Windows 95 and run Emacs/LDraw-mode in another
window.

If there is ever some GPL CAD system available for GNU/Linux (and
friends), we may want to cooperate on this?  This is where I stand at
the moment:

    http://www.math.uio.no/~fredrigl/technic/ldraw-mode/

BTW, Richard Stallman told me he wanted to include LDraw-mode in the
default Emacs distribution if there was some GPL CAD system available
for GNU/Linux.

Fredrik



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  Re: ldglite (ldlite for OpenGL and Linux) new stuff
 
(...) Take a look at my previous post, LeoCAD is GPL. I know it doesn't look like LDraw but you can still run "leocad foo.dat" and it will render the file or "leocad foo.dat -i foo.gif" and it will save a GIF file (JPG, PNG and BMP also supported). (...) (24 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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  Re: ldglite (ldlite for OpenGL and Linux) new stuff
 
(...) I've gotta remember to remove that WTOWER.DAT file so folks can't tell what a lousy builder I am. :) (Besides, it uses an unofficial piece or two) (...) Now you're onto something. I started with ldlite because the source was in C/C++ and was (...) (24 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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