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Subject: 
Preview .dat and .ldr in Windows Explorer?
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Date: 
Sat, 11 Jan 2003 05:22:23 GMT
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How are those preview pics done that you can see to the left when Windows
Explorer is set to view "As Web Page"?

Wouldn't it be great if we could preview LDraw files just the same?

If it's too complicated to make a graphic preview, just description and
author would be great.


/Tore



Message has 3 Replies:
  Re: Preview .dat and .ldr in Windows Explorer?
 
(...) Ooo! Yes, yes! That would be great! :) Steve (22 years ago, 11-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
  Re: Preview .dat and .ldr in Windows Explorer?
 
(...) A couple years ago I wrote something that created a popup window with the description of DAT/LCD files, like when you move the mouse over a Word or Excel file. You can try (URL) and see if it still works (I think the last OS I tried it on was (...) (22 years ago, 13-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
  Re: Preview .dat and .ldr in Windows Explorer?
 
(...) (URL)Wouldn't it be great if we could preview LDraw files just the same? This looks like it'd be a snap to combine the code in the article above with an ldraw DLL that renders to a bitmap. And I bet someone could make that DLL pretty quickly (...) (22 years ago, 13-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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