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Re: LDR - New LDraw File Extension
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lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad
Date: 
Wed, 5 Dec 2001 15:07:59 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Lars C. Hassing writes:
Michael Lachmann wrote...
Lars C. Hassing wrote...
I find that *.ldr and *.mpd belong together as the future extensions.

For me it's the kind of file - while mpd contains multiple models, ldr and
dat contain only one file (I thought it's more logical ???). But I'm always
open to discussions :-)

We both ignore the extension anyway and determine the actual file type
ourselves from the file contents, so I don't see the point in making
the user bother to choose between ldr/dat and mpd?

Therefore these 3 lines should be enough:
  LDraw Models (*.ldr, *.mpd)              (the default)
  All LDraw Files (*.ldr, *.mpd, *.dat)    (for backward compatibility)
  All Files (*.*)

How about just using .ldr?  Otherwise you Windows folks are going to
have to fight it out with Microsoft for the .mpd extension, and we
already know who'll win that battle.  :)  Microsoft registers .mpd
for Microsoft Project Documents.  Give it up now before it gets messy.

Don



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  Re: LDR - New LDraw File Extension
 
"Don Heyse" <dheyse@hotmail.spam....away.com> wrote in message news:GnvM1B.K54@lugnet.com... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) I thought Microsoft Project used .mpp for it's extensions. Mike -- Mike Walsh - mike_walsh at mindspring dot com (URL) - (...) (23 years ago, 5-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
  Re: LDR - New LDraw File Extension
 
(...) In this case, (since we are ridding the wave of change), I would sugest, using .mpl (Multipart Ldraw) instead of .mpd (Multipart Dat) I think it makes reasonable sence. Another pet peeve for is the fact, that we should agree, on the Case of (...) (23 years ago, 5-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)

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  Re: LDR - New LDraw File Extension
 
Michael Lachmann wrote... (...) Maybe our views are biased from the actual handling of the file types in our applications? MLCad has an "Active model" droplist and lets you switch between model/submodels. L3Lab always displays the complete model. (...) (23 years ago, 4-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)

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