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Re: I have some ideas / suggestions for all programmers
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Thu, 1 Aug 2002 09:09:07 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Roland Melkert writes:
> This is a good idea.
>
> Except forcing the user to a specific dir isn't that user friendly. So I
> think there should stay one tiny ini file in the application dir telling
> where to find the rest or something :)
Ok well then we should all put the ini files in each program dir
as u said.
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> I seldom use the registry anyway because of the anti portability and
> anti networking behavior of it. But it's handy for file associations and
> stuff.
I hate it too, specially as it a technic of M$ to control the user's pc.
> With 'dll' you mean third party stuff? DLL's you don't deliver with the
> setup itself. Because self written DLL's are very handy at times (e.g.
> program/language modules, plug ins).
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> My LD4DModeler forexample only needs the DirectX utils DLL of Project
> Jedi, which is in the setup, nothing else (Delphi compiles selfcontained
> Exe's by default).
Well some dll's like directX are ok and about delphi making an exe, well
O love delphi and is the only thing I use to program.
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> Roland
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> Eduardo wrote:
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> > Hello to everyone,
> >
> > I'm working a small tool similar to l3p addon but
> > it will be very simple, basic, won't need any dll
> > and won't use windows registry.
> > Well this post mainly is to say that I have a
> > suggestion / idea for all ldraw related software
> > that runs under windows my suggestion is:
> > Could all apps use only ini files or cfg files
> > instead of the registry and save all ini / cfg
> > files in lets say C:\lego\configs or in the users
> > My documents in desktop "NT/XP"?
> >
> > And that way we could just backup the Lego dir
> > and all it's configs, models, videos, apps.
> >
> > Oh and last thing try not to use dll like VB6
> >
> > What about it?
> >
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