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    Background color controls for constr and part list images —Kevin L. Clague
   Hi, I'm wanting to add support for different background colors for sub-models (also fonts/styles/colors used in PLI and BOMs). LEGO's building instructions use a different background color for each level of sub-model used, and it uses the same color (...) (21 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
   
        Re: Background color controls for constr and part list images —Jennifer Clark
     "Kevin L. Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:HCruK9.11n6@lugnet.com... (...) sub-models (...) ... Something I would like to see (and forgive me if it has been mentioned before) is a way to merge the BOM for a submodel into the (...) (21 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
    
         Re: Background color controls for constr and part list images —Kevin L. Clague
     (...) Hi Jennifer, Let me try to restate this by example: Step N adds three LDraw parts, plus a sub-model. You want the part list image for Step N to include the three added parts, plus all the parts needed to create the sub-model. Right? Kevin (...) (21 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
    
         Re: Background color controls for constr and part list images —Jennifer Clark
      "Kevin L. Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:HCrxBz.1Bso@lugnet.com... (...) needed to (...) Yes, and the same for the included sub-sub-models as well. It would be good to have a control for doing this or not for each step (...) (21 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
    
         Re: Background color controls for constr and part list images —Kevin L. Clague
      (...) The BOM information is recursive to include all levels of sub-models, so I think we're talking the same thing. (...) So we are rapidly running into one of the *major* enhancement areas of LPub: page layout I see two different issues here: The (...) (21 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
     
          Re: Background color controls for constr and part list images —Mike Walsh
       "Kevin L. Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:HCs1DE.1qy9@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) it (...) [ ... snipped ... ] Me too! He seems pretty responsive, maybe it won't take him too long! ;-) On serious note - Kevin - (...) (21 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
     
          Re: Background color controls for constr and part list images —Kevin L. Clague
      (...) Mike, You are quite welcome. Kevin (...) (21 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
    
         Re: Background color controls for constr and part list images —Anders Isaksson
      "Jennifer Clark" <jen@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk> skrev i meddelandet news:HCrz3C.1I8r@lugnet.com... (...) the (...) Maybe this could be solved with a META command for (temporary) sub-level shifts? -- Anders Isaksson, Sweden BlockCAD: (2 URLs) (21 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
    
         Re: Background color controls for constr and part list images —Kevin L. Clague
     Hi Jennifer, I started on a new meta-command in LPub to address these concerns (because my head is still spinning from the whole extension topic.) I'm introducing a new meta-command: 0 LPUB CALLOUT BEGIN (parameters) 0 LPUB CALLOUT END It is intened (...) (21 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
   
        Re: Background color controls for constr and part list images —Jake McKee
   (...) Wow... I was originally trying to get across a single basic concept using multiple examples, but I guess it did turn into several directions! (...) Sure, that could be a simple way to do this. I had mentioned it as part of this idea in case it (...) (21 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
   
        Re: Background color controls for constr and part list images —Kevin L. Clague
   (...) main (...) Yup. (...) right? (...) I'll assume this one is a non-issue as it already has a solution. (...) Yes. This is what I'm proposing. (...) It opens the top level file which is considered level 0. Top level file is examined sub models. (...) (21 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
   
        Re: Background color controls for constr and part list images —Ross Crawford
     (...) I assume poor level 2 was missed by accident? 8?) Does your recursion tie the background colour to the sub-file, or the tree? In other words, if I have a small sub-model which is used directly in the main model, and again in another sub-model, (...) (21 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
    
         Re: Background color controls for constr and part list images —Kevin L. Clague
     (...) You bring up an interesting and nasty case. What is missing from the explanation is that currently LPub renders the first occurrence of the sub-model, and skips the rest. To handle this case, LPub has to render all occurrences of the sub-model (...) (21 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
    
         Re: Background color controls for constr and part list images —Ross Crawford
     (...) Well, really only the first usage *in each level* (...) 8?) ROSCO (21 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
    
         Re: Background color controls for constr and part list images —Ross Crawford
     (...) Although, having the ability to render each occurrence separately if desired may possibly be useful (but I don't think I'd use it...) ROSCO (21 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
   
        Re: Background color controls for constr and part list images —Mike Walsh
    "Kevin L. Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote in message [ ... snipped ... ] (...) LEGO's (...) the (...) [ ... snipped ... ] This makes a lot of sense to me. I spent a lot of time looking at some more complex LEGO instructions when I was (...) (21 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
   
        Re: Background color controls for constr and part list images —Jake McKee
   (...) I am going to pull out some instructions today and take a look. This is quite interesting. The only thing that this standardization doesn't take into account is overall page layout. If you have a redish background image your instructions are (...) (21 years ago, 6-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 

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