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Re: Minifig Generator Plugin for LDDesignPad Version 1.6
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lugnet.cad.dev
Date: 
Fri, 27 Jun 2003 17:33:17 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Don Heyse wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dev, Steve Bliss wrote:
> > In lugnet.cad.dev, Orion Pobursky wrote:
> > 
> > > In addition, the plugin need the path to LDraw from the LDDP.ini file
> > 
> > Was there some reason that y'all didn't use <windir>\ldraw.ini?  If for
> > nothing else, it has the ldraw path.
> 
> Hey, I'm with you.  ldglite checks the environment variables first,
> then looks in the <windir>/ldraw.ini file before using a default.
> 
>   env_str = platform_getenv("LDRAWDIR");
>   if (env_str != NULL)
>     strcpy(pathname, env_str);
>   else if (GetPrivateProfileString("LDraw","BaseDirectory","",
>                                    pathname,256,"ldraw.ini") == 0)
>   {/* Use some default path */ }
> 
> I'm all for standardized components.  That's why I think using the
> lddp plugins is such a neat idea.  But I don't know all that much
> about .ini files.  Is there any reason why all LDRAW programs
> can't use the same .ini file?  I suppose you'd have to know where
> to look for it on systems other than Windows.  But that's not too
> hard to solve.  It could go in the /etc or your home directory on
> unix for example.
> 
> Don

Well, looking at the LDraw.ini, it apppears that we could swap over to using it.

-Orion



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  Re: Minifig Generator Plugin for LDDesignPad Version 1.6
 
(...) Absolutely no reason that I can think of. Unless a program deliberately wanted to have separate settings (or multiple settings). (...) Good point. (...) Or check both places. :) Steve (23 years ago, 28-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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  Re: Minifig Generator Plugin for LDDesignPad Version 1.6
 
(...) Hey, I'm with you. ldglite checks the environment variables first, then looks in the <windir>/ldraw.ini file before using a default. env_str = platform_getenv("LDRAWDIR"); if (env_str != NULL) strcpy(pathname, env_str); else if (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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