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Re: New tool for making minifigs
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lugnet.cad.dev
Date: 
Sun, 8 Sep 2002 13:00:54 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Jacob Sparre Andersen writes:
Eduardo Vazquez Harte wrote:
How do you make your Delphi apps
that can show you a preview of
what you a building or making
in dat format?

You could use LDGLite. It can supposedly (I have never
managed to get it to work) render a LDraw file off-screen
directly to a BMP or PNG file.

Hey, what's with the "supposedly" stuff!  I believe parts
tracker is already using that feature on ldraw.org. :^)

But anyhow, I'm not sure offscreen rendering is what Eduardo
is looking for.  What about borrowing some code from LDList?
It's written in Delphi, has a preview window, and the source
is now available on the website along with the executable.

Don



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  Re: New tool for making minifigs
 
(...) I'm looking for something like a Timage component but instead of loading bmp that it loads dat or ldr but I think for now it will do this off screen system. Play well (...) (22 years ago, 8-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
  Re: New tool for making minifigs
 
(...) I know, but I never got around to compile LDGLite myself with that feature activated. And now I have simply copied "/home/dheyse/ldglit...e/ldglite" to "/usr/local/bin/", so I can use your latest version. :-) Play well, Jacob (22 years ago, 8-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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  Re: New tool for making minifigs
 
(...) You could use LDGLite. It can supposedly (I have never managed to get it to work) render a LDraw file off-screen directly to a BMP or PNG file. (...) I expect something like: winexec("ldglite -q -mS model.dat"); will work, but you should read (...) (22 years ago, 8-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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