 | | LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - Summary please! —Tore Eriksson
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| | | 86 messages have been posted in this thread so far. I don't have a chance to catch up what has been discussed by reading all posts. Is it possible to make a brief and relatively easy-to-read summary of the most significant suggestions, and what (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - Summary please! —Kevin L. Clague
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| | | | | (...) I took the time to read all the posts, and I still would like a summary. It seems like the discussion has converged to conclusion, but I'd like to see the conclusion written up. I know that Lars is writing up code to match the conclusion, but (...) (21 years ago, 11-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - Summary please! —Michael Lachmann
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| | | | "Tore Eriksson" <tore.eriksson@mbox3...wipnet.se> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:HuDDv0.1KDF@lugnet.com... (...) to (...) most (...) lead to? (...) Ok I try and hope that I do not forget something here, all others please correct me if i'm wrong - but (...) (21 years ago, 11-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - Summary please! —Lars C. Hassing
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| | | | | (...) Currently my code doesn't expect all the spaces above, but I'm open to that. The LDrawSetup program that I'm also writing at the same time can not preserve the spaces if you add or delete options, so it will ruin any nice table formatting you (...) (21 years ago, 11-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - Summary please! —Kim Toll
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| | | | | | (...) [snip] (...) OK, so I'm a new guy in the ldraw dev community, but I figured if I don't say something now it'll never get considered. So please go gently on me. I don't know the full protocol you guys use to come up with these standers. But (...) (21 years ago, 13-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - Summary please! —Michael Lachmann
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| | | | | | "Kim Toll" <kim.toll@intel.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:HuHvvE.w2t@lugnet.com... <SNIP> (...) base (...) indicates (...) let them (...) with (...) view. (...) the (...) official (...) models and (...) This is a good idea, theoretically we can (...) (21 years ago, 14-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - Summary please! —Travis Cobbs
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| | | | | | | I tend to agree on both points. I would like to point out that primitives is mis-spelled in the example. Let's make sure that the official way has the correct spelling ;-). --Travis Cobbs (21 years ago, 14-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - Summary please! —Don Heyse
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| | | | | | | (...) Ok, you're starting to catch on to the versatility of extra tags, but don't stop at just one more tag at the end of the line. Allow as many as the user wants. I think <Unofficial> and <Parts> should be separate tags. Just like I know you want (...) (21 years ago, 15-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - Summary please! —Ross Crawford
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| | | | | | | | | (...) Most *nix file systems allow those characters in filenames - just enclose them in quotes. Dunno about Windows. I just tried it on NT and it didn't like it, but I didn't try very hard. ROSCO (21 years ago, 15-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - Summary please! —Anders Isaksson
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| | | | | | | | | (...) [testing...] WinXP with NTFS does not let you use < or > in filenames when renaming a file. You could probably generate such a name in plain old DOS - not from the command line interface, but by calling the file operations from a program. At (...) (21 years ago, 15-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - Summary please! —Michael Lachmann
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| | | | | | | | "Don Heyse" <dheyse@hotmail.spam....away.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:HuLIG9.210E@lugnet.com... <SNIP> (...) Yes, I prefere that too. (...) No I don't think so, there will be no old programm reading this file, or the section in it. I think there (...) (21 years ago, 15-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - Summary please! —Don Heyse
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| | | | | | | | (...) Actually I wasn't thinking about long filenames, just the slashes. I can never remember which one is called backslash so I probably wasn't all that clear. Maybe we should just *recommend* using the DOS style slashes as the directory separator, (...) (21 years ago, 15-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - Summary please! —Lars C. Hassing
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| | | | | | | | (...) Well, I still compile a 16-bit DOS version of L3P for a few users (2%), but I think the coming version 1.4 will be the last. The possibilities when having the full tree in memory are too tempting. We can recommend the few hardcore DOS users to (...) (21 years ago, 15-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - Summary please! —Don Heyse
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| | | | | | | | (...) Hey, this reminded me of something. Is there some flavor of Windows that uses nasty 16 bit unicode filenames? That could get quite messy. I think the unix world is moving toward UTF-8 which sounds a bit more sane, and should work with either (...) (21 years ago, 15-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - Summary please! —Anders Isaksson
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| | | | | | | | (...) The NTFS (NT, XP, W2000) file system uses unicode. I don't know if that matters as long as you are using a western alphabet, but on a Chinese system for example, your file names can of course be in Chinese. -- Anders Isaksson, Sweden BlockCAD: (...) (21 years ago, 16-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - Summary please! —Michael Lachmann
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| | | | | | | | "Anders Isaksson" <isaksson.etuna@REMO...telia.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:HuoL3w.LHF@lugnet.com... (...) system (...) Which would mean, we will have to support ini files in uni-code, which isn't a problem either, but allows funny characters (...) (21 years ago, 18-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - Summary please! —James Reynolds
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| | | | | | (...) They could be encoded. This is how Mac OS X pref files are encoded: <sometag>/Path/>&...</sometag> (21 years ago, 15-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - Summary please! —Ross Crawford
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| | | | (...) If it is just a sequential number, wouldn't it be easier to just leave it out altogether, and say the directories will be searched in the order they appear in the file? ROSCO (21 years ago, 11-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - Summary please! —Travis Cobbs
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| | | | (...) The desire was to preserve standard Windows INI file formatting, and each data line in an INI file has the form <key> = <value> (spaces optional). The numbers were suggested as keys, with positive responses from the people that responded. As a (...) (21 years ago, 12-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - Summary please! —Michael Lachmann
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| | | | "Travis Cobbs" <tcobbs@REMOVE.halibut.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:HuG3s7.qDu@lugnet.com... <SNIP> (...) it out (...) appear in (...) data (...) numbers (...) responded. (...) the (...) the (...) Easier ? Hmmm - when you read from a file its (...) (21 years ago, 14-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - Summary please! —Don Heyse
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| | | | (...) Ah, but we've already covered this ground. In addition to the registry functions, there are also Windows functions for reading and writing to INI files in the format with the = sign. Search in this thread for getprivateprofilestring and/or (...) (21 years ago, 15-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - Summary please! —Orion Pobursky
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| | | | (...) Yes, I'd prefer numbers and equals signs. All the functions I use to read INI files require this format (or something similar. e.g. <string> <separator> <string>) -Orion (21 years ago, 15-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - Summary please! —Michael Lachmann
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| | | | <SNIP (...) sounded (...) INI (...) Ok, Ok ... I agree! No problem with that, I just thought I could convice you for the different side of the river ;-> The solution is not beautyfull, but I can live with it. Michael (21 years ago, 15-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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