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I've been puzzling with this for days and I give up. Here's my problem: I can rotate a single part about it's origin but I'm having trouble figuring out how to rotate a system of parts about the origin of a given part in the system. Can someone (...) (22 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: I need help on Delphi so I can finnish my program
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"Eduardo Vazquez Harte" <eduvazhar@terra.es> skrev i meddelandet news:H2nHw2.GBC@lugnet.com... (...) edits. (...) const CtrlAndSpace = [#0..#32]; var s: string; p, q: integer; begin s := ListBox1.Items[ListB...temIndex]; p := 1; while (p < (...) (22 years ago, 18-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LPub - LEGO Publication made easy!
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(...) I am having a problem. The first time I used it, I just opened a .dat file, generated instruction images, and although it took a while, everything worked just fine. After that I created both times of webpages. Then, I thought, hey, I should (...) (22 years ago, 19-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| | Re: I need help on Delphi so I can finnish my program
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(...) If you don't want to use the ExtractStrings function then do this: StringList := TStringList.Create; i := 1; String1 := ''; String2 := ListBox.Items[ListBo...temIndex]; while i <= Length(String2) do begin if String2[i] <> ' ' then begin (...) (22 years ago, 18-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hi Eduardo, Have you considered asking the nice folks on the delphi newsgroup? (URL) might have better luck with this sort of question if you ask them. I suspect only a small percentage of the readers of the lugnet.cad.dev group know a whole (...) (22 years ago, 18-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: I need help on Delphi so I can finnish my program
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I need to know how can I pass a selected Listbox item to a lets say 4 edits. Example user clicks on a item an then delphi passes the 4 words in the current item to 4 edits a word in each edit. Can someone help me plase. I hope is not with (...) (22 years ago, 18-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Formalizing a method for handling synthesizable parts
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Thanks for this pointer. I contacted Koen and he has gaciously donated his code to the synthesis effort. The results on his website are stunning. Going straight to triangles provides a much more finished looking result. This will work very well for (...) (22 years ago, 17-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Formalizing a method for handling synthesizable parts [DAT]
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(...) Steve, Thanks for the high level guidance. It is welcomed and appreciated. (...) Yes. Of course. I've set a few of my own goals also. An example of what I'm thinking about now is: 0 SYNTH BEGIN ELECTRIC_CABLE 1 0 -348 -114 70 0 0 -1 0 1 0 1 0 (...) (22 years ago, 17-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Formalizing a method for handling synthesizable parts
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I'm going to mostly stay out of this discussion for now. I will throw out a few suggestions/requirements, though: 1. The final definition should be renderable by ldraw.exe. 2. It might be a good idea to put each 'synthesizable part' in its own file (...) (22 years ago, 17-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: I need help on Delphi so I can finnish my program
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(...) Here's a better way (I think, I haven't tested it yet); Use ExtractStrings as stated above and change the string you want to change. Then set the Delimter Property to ' ' set the QuoteChar Property to '' use the DelimitedText property to (...) (22 years ago, 16-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Sorry I do understand is only that I don't like the ansewr. But I'll see what I can do. (22 years ago, 16-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I suspect your problem was that you were confused by the technical jargon of "Bend Thingie." 8^) Dave! (22 years ago, 16-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yes! That's the one! Good to know my memory hasn't *completely* gone soft in my old age... <grin> JohnG, GMLTC (22 years ago, 16-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) This? (URL) Dave! (22 years ago, 16-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: I need help on Delphi so I can finnish my program
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(...) Please don't take this the wrong way, but if you didn't understand what he wrote, then you would probably find it a lot less frustrating to spend some more time learning how to use Delphi, and programming techniques in general. I've never (...) (22 years ago, 16-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Iterative solving requires a model and a way to compute how far it is from a desired state and a way to compute how to take a tiny step toward the desired state. You loop over tiny steps, updating the model, until either X steps are taken, the (...) (22 years ago, 16-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Kevin L. Clague writes: <snip1> (...) <snip2> Someone posted something similar to this a while back, but I can't find it... They were demonstrating rendering (POV-Ray, I think) LEGO flexible tubing by defining it as a computed (...) (22 years ago, 16-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Erik, I think that for tube like devices, the constraints will be vectors that indicate some part of the tube needs to be at this location and at this orientation. The endpoints are like this. This constraint mechanism works well for routing wires (...) (22 years ago, 16-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: I need help on Delphi so I can finnish my program
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I don't understand this hope there is another easy way. (...) (22 years ago, 16-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: I need help on Delphi so I can finnish my program
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(...) This way may seem clunky but it is the only way I can think up off the yopp of my head: Extract each word to a TStringList class using the ExtractStrings procedure. For example, assuming a string called Sentence: ExtractStrings([' '], [' '], (...) (22 years ago, 15-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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