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Re: Organizing the LDraw CD-ROM
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lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
Date: 
Thu, 10 Feb 2000 04:52:51 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Mike Stanley writes:
> On Sun, 6 Feb 2000 00:07:56 GMT, "Tim Courtney" <tim@zacktron.com>
> wrote:
> > How much of a pain?  Can it be as simple as a window prompting them to give
> > approval to add them?  Or is it much more painful than that?
> 
> Well, I don't like the idea of asking someone to install runtimes
> before "my" program will work.  It looks cheesy, I think, and
> unprofessional.  And it certainly wasn't an option for the company I
> was doing this project for or for me, considering what they were
> paying me.  So I sprung for APMSP.
> 
> If you're going to charge for the CD, I'd say you shouldn't make
> people work to hard to install the stuff, especially to do something
> as simple as run a menu.

Yeah, I agree here.

> > Being the design nut I am, does it allow pretty much complete freedom as to
> > how this menu will appear graphically?  I'd like to design the look to fit in
> > with the HTML guide, which will take on a souped up ldraw.org look with a
> > little more color (as I see it in my head now).
> 
> Download the fully functional trial version.  Won't let you create
> installers that don't proclaim "hey, this hasn't been paid for" but I
> think you'll like it.

Ok, will do.  I'll at least play around with it to get a feel.  Is it
WYSIWYG?  (I guess I'll find out)...

-Tim



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  Re: Organizing the LDraw CD-ROM
 
(...) You'll find out, and yes, it is a layout-type program. Get it setup the way you want it, and if I can take your saved project file and just compile it (you'd have to give me a place to grab the cd from, or maybe burn one copy for me) and burn (...) (27 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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  Re: Organizing the LDraw CD-ROM
 
(...) Well, I don't like the idea of asking someone to install runtimes before "my" program will work. It looks cheesy, I think, and unprofessional. And it certainly wasn't an option for the company I was doing this project for or for me, (...) (27 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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