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(...) That would be my preference. Steve (21 years ago, 12-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Create an installer for the Dutch MLCad DLL file
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(...) Try NSIS. (URL) (21 years ago, 9-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Hi all, Does anyone know a good but easy to use program to create an installer? What I am looking for is an installer that first searches the users computer for the MLCad executable and then puts the DLL file in that directory. I need this since one (...) (21 years ago, 9-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: announcing TrackDraw (BrickFest preview)
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(...) Well put. Why some people have to criticize when something is done for them for free is beyond my comprehension. James Wilson Dallas, TX (21 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) It's not that we're biased toward MS products, it's just Windows is the most widely used OS and therefore if you want to have to good user base you have to program for Windows. I personally find Linux confusing and prefer using Windows; does (...) (21 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) ... (...) One basic difference between TrackDraw and Track Designer is that TrackDraw uses vector-based graphics; Track Designer uses bitmaps. With vector graphics, the drawing can be scaled arbitrarily large, and can be easily transcoded as (...) (21 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hehe, looks like I'll go out in my garden and dig a hole for my LTrax project. :) /Tore (21 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I looked at the presentation on the replacement for Track Designer. You did not explain why a replacement is need or what extra facilities it will have. One of the advantages will be that the code will be available to enhancements can be made. (...) (21 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Don Heyse wrote: ... (...) In short, it's an application platform written for Windows. TrackDraw itself is just a self-contained executable. Unlike traditional Windows applications, it doesn't touch the registry. (...) No, but (...) (21 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) If you're willing to spend the hours and hours and hours required to write the project, use whatever you want! Otherwise, you have the choice of using the tool that Cary is working on, or not... I'm not a fan of Microsoft by any means, but I (...) (21 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) OK sorry for posting my negative post about .NET and MICRO$$$$$$$OSFT I just don't understand why I was forced to do all my LEGO videos in MPG just to make happy some idiots "linux and mac users" and why I find that all lugnet cad are (...) (21 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Fantastic news. Thanks for all the hardwork. I am really looking forward to this. Jason Spears | (URL) BrickCentral> | (URL) MichLUG> (21 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Cool, new code! I'll have to go easy on the Microsoft bashing for a little while. By the way, what is .Net anyhow? I thought it was the latest name for SOAP (perhaps that explains the XML). And hey, since TrackDraw seems to import and export (...) (21 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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"Eduardo" <eduvazhar@telefonica.net> wrote in message news:HJ8vDK.1zBC@lugnet.com... (...) six months (...) little about (...) (URL) > (...) need to (...) haven't (...) That's pretty harsh. If you don't like it, don't use it. Write your own (...) (21 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Having been one of the more vocal MS bashers around here, let me say that you should never feel the need to apologize for releasing free software to people. You have obviously put a lot of thought and effort into writing a new utility, and you (...) (21 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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<snip> (...) There's absolutely nothing wrong with .net, other than the MS haters don't like it and there are more .net apps out there than you think. As someone else has already mentioned, most of the .net framework is built in to XP and even if (...) (21 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) ... (...) ... I work for Microsoft. Although I am writing TrackDraw for fun, it is helpful in my work job to gain more experience with XML and .NET. I understand Microsoft offends some people. I apologize. (...) ... Track Designer is a pretty (...) (21 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) ... (...) I've heard about Linux-based versions of .NET, but I don't have any personal experience with them. It may be very reasonable to port to Linux -- I think the largest stumbling block will be an accurate port of GDI+, the 2D drawing (...) (21 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Dude, This might be an English as a second language issue but there is a right way and a wrong way to criticise someone about their work. Your way was definately the wrong way -Orion (21 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I wonder if you would feel the same when it was programmed in Java, which needs a Java Virtual Machine installation first. .Net is perfectly acceptable IMHO. I guess it's more an anti Microsoft thing than anything else (the $ is a good hint (...) (21 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) There is nothing wrong with using .NET, and most of the "crap" you refer to is already present in Windows XP. I've developed many .NET programs and they all work well and my clients are all happy with the way .NET works on their systems. (...) (21 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Why you did it in MICRO$OFT .NET now if we want to use your program we need to install 30mb of crap .NET anyway your program is the 1st ine to use it I haven't seen any yet apart from MICRO$OFT LONGHORN a.k.a next windows in 2005 (21 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I noticed you're using .Net So it might actually work on Linux boxes since the Framework is also available for Linux. See: (URL) for more info about a .Net framework implementation. -Frank (21 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Orange in LDraw
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Another solution is to leave things alone, but change the applications palette to suit the user's taste. Color is tricky. (21 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I've been working on TrackDraw, a replacement for Track Designer, for six months or so. I'll talk about it at BrickFest on Saturday. You can read a little about it, and see the BrickFest PowerPoint slides here: (URL) not ready to release the program (...) (21 years ago, 6-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.cad.dev) !
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| | Re: Star Wars mini models 1st wave render & Orange in part
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(...) Maybe a light source is really close, but the blue seems rather bright. I'll have to try it myself. There's not an official LDraw color for Dark Blue yet, is there? I checked (URL) (...) 484 looks like the right orange to me, based on your (...) (21 years ago, 6-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) It is dark blue. In fact that's the darkest I can get it wiht LDraw color number since I used dithered Black and Blue. (...) Unfortunately no (...) I used 484. 25 seemed too dark. -Orion (21 years ago, 6-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Looks nice, esp. the AT-ST. Colors seem wrong on the Slave I (I think the blue should be dark blue). Missing the TIE Bomber, though. Are the cylinders for the TIE Bomber up yet? Question related to another topic: what color orange did you use (...) (21 years ago, 6-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I personally prefer 484 over both 25 & 462, although this may be an optical trick (brain sees a progression, and logically picks the middle color as the correct color). But 462 is defintely too yellowish. John P.S. I FTXed Orion's message. (21 years ago, 6-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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I did a color comparison of the color orange in LDraw: (URL) brick on the left is the current LDraw color 462 The brick in the middle is color 484, the dither of Yellow and Red (the dither of Red and Yellow, 334, is currently defined as Gold Chrome) (...) (21 years ago, 6-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LEdit Command line question [DAT]
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(...) The only way to do this with LEdit is to create your own part file, consisting of one line: 1 16 0 -24 20 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3001.dat If you store that file in your ldraw\parts directory, you can use it in LEdit as a part, in place of 3001.dat. (...) (21 years ago, 6-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) But for the less commonly used tools ... it does nothing. At this time, CMDLINE is really just a comment. Maybe someday, some renderer/editor will make use of it, but not yet. Steve (21 years ago, 6-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Most of the meta commands are used outside of the original LEdit program. ROTATION CENTER is currently only used in MLCad (I make use of it frequently). If you're not able to use MLCad (I don't see why not), then I suggest making a custom part (...) (21 years ago, 4-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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My ignorance of meta-commands is very nearly complete, so I throw myself on the mercy of my peers here in lugnet.cad.dev Is there a way to "set" the rotation point of a part that will work in LEdit? For example, if I'd like the 2x4 brick 3001.dat to (...) (21 years ago, 4-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I forgot to add that this link: (URL) my draft LDraw spec and it contains a list of all the known META commands and links to the website for the programs that use them -Orion (21 years ago, 4-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) It's a LDLite META Command. Supposedly the command gives a default color for the part though I've never really seen it in action. For the most commonly used tools (MLCad, LeoCAD, L3P) this command does nothing. -Orion (21 years ago, 4-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Can someone tell me what a "CMDLINE -C0" means? And if there is a website that explains what the other commands are and how they are used. Thank you, Paul (21 years ago, 4-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: * LDrawDesignPad LDDP 1.5 Beta released *
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(...) Well this problem my be out of our hands. We've been using SynEdit for our editing component and since this code is not written by us, fixing problems with it is difficult. (...) When code ocmponent that we used for the editor was swapped the (...) (21 years ago, 3-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: * LDrawDesignPad LDDP 1.5 Beta released *
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(...) [SNIP] (...) I’d like to move the triple 3, say, into position 1 or another line. I click and select the 3 numbers + spaceholders. once the triple is selected in 1.4 the cursor becomes an "arrow" and you can drag’n’drop the selection into the (...) (21 years ago, 3-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I don't know what he is using, but I do know that enabling and disabling menu animations can produce completely unexpected side-effects. Assuming your Windows version is recent enough to support menu animations, you might want to switch them (...) (21 years ago, 3-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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