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Re: Black seems wrong in ldconfig.ldr
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Sat, 17 Jan 2004 00:55:25 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Travis Cobbs wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dev, Steve Bliss wrote:
> > You could put your custom information in an ldviewconfig.ldr file which you supply
> > with the LDView install. Then add a setting to LDView, allowing the user to specify
> > multiple pre-processing files. Default the setting to
> > <LDrawDir>\ldconfig.ldr;<LDViewDir>\ldviewconfig.ldr
> > and you're in business.
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> Thanks. That's a good idea. I'll have to think about it, though. Up until
> now, I have purposely avoided creating any LDView-specific meta-commands. On
> the other hand, this would be one of the few reasons that might convince me that
> an LDView-specific meta-command would be a good idea. (I'm generally against
> program-specific meta-commands, except when they are absolutely necessary, and
> even this instance might not be a strong enough case in the favor of an
> LDView-specific meta-command.)
Well, I hope the final syntax for the color definition statement will allow some
space for programs to support their own special syntactic needs. So you hopefully
won't need a super-custom meta-statement for LDView, just a special flavor for the
standard meta-statement.
> Additionally, this won't provide any added functionality to 99% of my users over
> a check-box that causes LDView to override the default colors with its internal
> ones, and only use ldconfig.ldr colors for colors it doesn't know about. It
> would allow the other 1% of my users to go in and modify the file, but I really
> don't see many users doing that, especially when the file could change with each
> LDView release.
True.
Steve
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