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    Preview .dat and .ldr in Windows Explorer? —Tore Eriksson
   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 (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
   
        Re: Preview .dat and .ldr in Windows Explorer? —Steve Bliss
     (...) 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? —Leonardo Zide
     (...) 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)
    
         LeoCAD / LDraw Shell Extension DLL (Was: Preview .dat...) —Tore Eriksson
     (...) Wow! This is awesome! And you've kept this cool little program all for yourself all these years. No, it's just that I haven't been surfing your pages for ages. Shame on me. Pity it doesn't recognize .ldr files, but that's understandable (...) (22 years ago, 13-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
   
        Re: Preview .dat and .ldr in Windows Explorer? —Don Heyse
   (...) (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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