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"Kevin L. Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:HD1BFD.1D64@lugnet.com... (...) It looks like you have all of the ones I can think of. Being able to control all of the settings that are available from the GUI is top of the list. It (...) (21 years ago, 8-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Dan Boger" <dan@peeron.com> wrote in message news:20030408155024....ron.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) Not just over the phone, live and in person as well. More powerful does not always mean something s better. Perl allows people to do a lot of (...) (21 years ago, 8-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Dan and Mike, <snip> Any feedback on what I outlined for scripting interface and such? Kevin (21 years ago, 8-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi Kevin, Thanks for all of your hard work on this program! I downloaded the new version last night, and noticed during installation that the version number shown on the first splash screen was for 2.1.0.6. -Joel (...) (21 years ago, 8-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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(...) it's true that Tcl is probably easier to read and support, over the phone. Perl is more powerful, and therefor harder to understand what a user is trying to do in his code. I'm not sure this would be an issue for LPub though. [snip] (...) perl (...) (21 years ago, 8-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Kevin L. Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:HD11Aq.CBL@lugnet.com... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) My personal prefeence would be Tcl. I think it is a better scripting solution for CAD tools than Perl is. I have worked with (...) (21 years ago, 8-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) perl, of course :) and if you know perl, and not Tcl, I think you should go with what you know. (21 years ago, 8-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi All, LPub fans may be aware that I'm planning on adding scripting language support into LPub to let the *power* users do what they want, including prototyping new features that may someday be incorporated directly into LPub. The idea behind (...) (21 years ago, 8-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi All, I only posted this to announce, but thought wiser. I've released LPub 2.1.0.7 for general use. It contains a few new minor features, but more importantly there are fixes to the combination of rotation steps and buffer exchange, as well as (...) (21 years ago, 7-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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(...) Hey, since you're planning on using tcl for lpub, perhaps it makes sense to convert the lsynth GUI into a portable tcl/tk app. I haven't done any tcl/tk in years, but I took a quick stab at it. (URL) still needs some work to get the log to (...) (21 years ago, 7-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) <snip> (...) I like the word because for me it implies that others can develop such "plugin" things. (...) I like perl syntax better, but I really think that the Tcl solution is much more lightweight. (...) Kevin (...) (21 years ago, 7-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Kevin, I wondering if you were going to notice the usage of the word "plugin"! This sounds great! Can't wait to start hacking around with TCL! Jake --- Jake McKee LEGO Enthusiast Webmaster - B.I. Portal (URL) (21 years ago, 7-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi All, Jake, thanks for the label suggestion. I'm going to release LPub with the fixes and new features indicated in /www.lugnet.com/cad/dec/1527. This will get a few major fixes and features out there for people to use. The next development step (...) (21 years ago, 7-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Sorry about the delay. I made most of the changes that Steve suggested, along with a few others, and posted both a line-number-annotated .txt version and an html version. The html version can be found here: (URL) still not 100% complete, I (...) (21 years ago, 6-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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OK, I made almost all the changes you suggested. I only skipped one, as noted below. I also made some other changes that are all indicated by the 12 version number at the beginning of each line. (...) I don't think I agree. I don't think people (...) (21 years ago, 6-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Kevin, After looking at the seemingly extinct Label Printer program that Gary Williams had developed a while back, I had the thought for an LPub "plugin" so to speak. Wouldn't it be great if LPub could spit out labels for marking storage bins? If (...) (21 years ago, 6-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) 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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"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) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I would find *both* of these items useful. But my needs probably *don't* represent the needs of most people. Steve (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Travis & All - What's the status on this? Is there a document we can call 'final' or final enough to post on the site? If so, could one of you do me a HUGE favor of going throug the paragraphs and separating them like this? <p> paragraph. </p> <p> (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Mike, You are quite welcome. Kevin (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"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 - (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"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 (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LPub and Lsynth page for tracking enhancement requests and bug fixes
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[ ... snipped ... ] (...) (along (...) all (...) sleep?) (...) [ ... snipped ... ] This request is in the same veign as the request I made to have LPub support some level of scripting. (URL) a scripting interface, you could batch up a whole series (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) 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 (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Well, really only the first usage *in each level* (...) 8?) ROSCO (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) 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, (...) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) The following already reported programs should be listed as well: Edger: (URL) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) 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. (...) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I've never even heard of these before...I'll look into Dan adding them to the download pages. -Tim (22 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"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 (...) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LPub and Lsynth page for tracking enhancement requests and bug fixes
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(...) Hard to keep up with new requests at this rate :^) Besides, I get to decide if it is major or minor...... (...) I put this in the minor part of the list. (...) I put this in the major part of the list. (...) Kevin (...) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) A couple more minor requests: - Would be great if the textual status window at the top of the LPub app had scrollbars in order to page back through previous textual info - Would be great to be able to queue up multiple files to be rendered (...) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I think this is a great idea, and can provide another recent example of why this would be wonderful to have. Using LPub, I recently ran a large model with about 6 submodels. I kicked it off before I went to bed, and it had completed by mid-day (...) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Sounds terrific! Thanks! Jake --- Jake McKee LEGO Enthusiast Webmaster - B.I. Portal (URL) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) you fill me in? Jake --- Jake McKee LEGO Enthusiast Webmaster - B.I. Portal (URL) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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