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Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths
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Date: 
Wed, 25 Feb 2004 15:42:31 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Travis Cobbs wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dev, Michael Lachmann wrote:
> > Good idea, so how about
> > 
> > [LDRAW_SEARCH]
> > 1=SHOW    <MODELDIR>
> > 2=HIDE       <LDRAWDIR>P
> > 3=SHOW    <LDRAWDIR>Parts
> > 4=SHOW    <LDRAWDIR>Models
> > .
> > .
> > .
> > 20=SHOW "C:\A special path with blanks"
> > 
> > Keywords <MODELDIR> ... actual directory where the project/file is located
> > <LDRAWDIR> ... what it tells us
> > and finaly paths starting with anything different from "<" as beeing
> > absolute paths as beeing designed for the operating system
> > 
> > I think two keywords for predefined paths should be enough.
> 
> It looks good to me.

It works for me too.  So we should check the user's home directory
for an ldraw.ini file containing an [LDRAW_SEARCH] section, then if not
found look in the ldraw.ini file in Windows directory.

For myself, because of platform portability considerations, I'll still
check the environment variable LDRAW_SEARCH before looking for an
ldraw.ini file.  I'll separate the entries in the environment variable
with the "|" character.  However, I'm undecided whether to require
a HIDE or SHOW tag, or use only <HIDE> and make SHOW the default.  Will
anyone else be using the environment variable, and if so do you have
a preference?

Don



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  Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths
 
(...) Me too. I think it is a good idea with a separate section for the search directories, it allows shorter keys than suggested in (URL) I suggest section name [LDrawSearch] which is more in line with [LDraw]. (...) Yes, first (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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  Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths
 
(...) It looks good to me. --Travis Cobbs (23 years ago, 24-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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