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Re: I have some ideas / suggestions for all programmers
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Thu, 1 Aug 2002 23:14:11 GMT
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I understand where you're coming from, but I personally feel that the
registry does have its place, if used properly. Mind you, most programs
don't use it properly in my opinion.
LDView uses the registry to remember your settings, and to remember where
the LDraw directory is. It has default values for every registry setting,
so you can run LDView on a virgin machine, and everything works fine. (In
fact, since LDView has no installer, this is a requirement.) And if it
can't find the LDraw directory, it asks the user to find it and select it.
I will agree that anything that is difficult to reproduce is better off in
some kind of configuration file, but configuration options such as LDView's
are trivially easy to reconfigure.
And I strongly disagree with your statement about VB6 DLLs. That's similar
to telling potential program authors that we don't want anything they might
produce if they're going to program in Visual Basic. I'd much rather have a
program written in VB (with the associated DLL requirements) than no program
at all. Given that all of the LDraw programs are pretty much written for
fun, no one has any place criticizing anyone else's choice of programming
language. And the fact is that if you choose to program in VB, the runtime
DLLs are required. To me, complaints about VB6 DLLs just make it less
likely that more programs will be written.
--Travis Cobbs (tcobbs@REMOVE.halibut.com)
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| "Travis Cobbs" <tcobbs@REMOVE.halibut.com> wrote in message news:H06tvn.HEA@lugnet.com... (...) similar (...) might (...) a (...) program (...) runtime (...) Being a VB programmer myself who doesn't have the time or the inclination to learn another (...) (22 years ago, 2-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | I have some ideas / suggestions for all programmers
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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 (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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