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Re: Preview .dat and .ldr in Windows Explorer?
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Date: 
Mon, 13 Jan 2003 19:06:06 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Tore Eriksson writes:
How are those preview pics done that you can see to the left when Windows
Explorer is set to view "As Web Page"?

  http://www.codeproject.com/shell/ThumbExtract.asp

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 out of the Bezier Curve Generator
plugin for LDDesignPad (which uses the ldglite offscreen renderer).

  http://www.pobursky.com/files/BezSource.zip

Unfortunately I don't have the time right now to do it.  I have to
admit, it would be pretty nifty though.

Don



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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 (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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