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Re: Part Numbering Crisis in LDraw
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Tue, 2 Mar 1999 15:05:46 GMT
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On Mon, 1 Mar 1999 22:15:43 GMT, jasper@janssen.dynip.com (Jasper
Janssen) wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Mar 1999 15:18:13 GMT, blisses@worldnet.att.net (Steve
> Bliss) wrote:
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> > That's not much better, because a new part-file is still required
> > whenever a new color is released.
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> Why's that such a big problem?
The big problem is someone has to notice the new color, and then someone
has to make the change in the next part update. Why subject ourselves
to this headache?
> I mean... it's not like a 20 byte part
> file, or 10000 of them, will take up a significant amount of space.
> Especially zipped, when you don't have to worry about cluster sizes.
But we aren't zipped, and there are plenty of people with Win95/FAT16
hard drives where a 20 byte file will eat up 32K of drive space.
> By the time there are so many "extra" parts to become annoying (ie, at
> 32 kb clusters, 32 megs = 1000 files), a basic, dirt-cheap $500 PC
> will be coming with a 20 gig HD.
Which is $500 more than some people can spend.
> There's the issue of people trying to find a part in a list and having
> to scroll through too much.
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> How about, if this becomes significant, adding a special "no_display"
> flag to all those "colorerd shortcut" files? then you could have only
> the original, color 16'ed part show up in such a list, with hyperlinks
> to colored versions, if someone feels they want to use those.
Just put a standard tag at the start of the part name (like ~Color), and
LDAO can ignore the parts when creating the VEC.
> Of course, if you search the database by _number_, all the files
> should be searched.
Right, but I think that level of usefullness is better addressed in a
search program which is smart enough to look for things like the
KEYWORDS tag.
> Anyway, I feel that adding the capability to search under any part
> number a part is known under is significant.
But how many people know a part by any number other than what is stamped
on the part (or a subpart of the part)? All the other numbers come from
some reference list that most people never see.
Steve
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| (...) Why's that such a big problem? I mean... it's not like a 20 byte part file, or 10000 of them, will take up a significant amount of space. Especially zipped, when you don't have to worry about cluster sizes. By the time there are so many (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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