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Subject:	Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths
Newsgroups:	lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad.dev
Date:	Mon, 1 Mar 2004 17:56:20 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.mac, James Reynolds wrote: > One other thing. Environment variables work too, but only serious > Unixy Mac OS X people actually modify them--that is, some developers, > but no one else. Normal users would even know what they are. Heck, > even I don't modify mine. For my l3p and ldglite launcher apps, I grab > the ldrawdir from the prefs, then I modify the environment variable > before it is launched. But the variable is wiped out once the app is > quit. Actually Environment variables work pretty well on OS X because they've set up a standard place to put them, and it's one of those plist files. See here for details. http://ldglite.sourceforge.net/osxinstall.html It would be nice though to have a standard fallback location for the LDRAWDIR and LDRAWSEARCH paths. Somewhere generic like: /Library/Preferences/org.ldraw.mac.plist or ~/Library/Preferences/org.ldraw.mac.plist I'll have to go back and see what we said about it over the summer. Don

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		Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths
(...) Oh. I didn't know it was as easy as: ~/MacOSX/environment.plist I guess that is one route. In Cocoa, which is what Andrew and I are both developing in now, it is really easy to grab prefs that have a unique name for the application. It isn't (...) (21 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad.dev)

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		Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths
One other thing. Environment variables work too, but only serious Unixy Mac OS X people actually modify them--that is, some developers, but no one else. Normal users would even know what they are. Heck, even I don't modify mine. For my l3p and (...) (21 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad.dev)

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