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Re: In dev: new ldconfig.ldr file
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lugnet.cad.dev
Date: 
Mon, 9 Aug 2004 20:10:09 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Travis Cobbs wrote:
> However, it seems to me that making all the edges black should be up to the
> software program (under user control), not the default color definition
> list. It's trivial for a program to make all the edges black (and not much
> harder to let the user choose what color to make them), but if the official
> color list says they should be black, there's no way to go back the other
> way.

True.  Except the current ldconfig.ldr file doesn't specify all edge colors as
black.  Many of them use color 0 (which is defined as RGB(33,33,33)), some of
them specify #000000, some of them use other colors.

> So, my vote would be to go back to colored (excuse me, coloured) edges in
> the ldconfig.ldr, and NOT have an official (even alternate) file with black
> edges.

Hmm, somebody want to setup a poll on this?

> While the various suggestions for alternate files make sense, they seem
> leave out one major issue:  ldraw.org doesn't touch the ldraw.ini file;
> that's purely up to various software programs.  So while it could
> distribute the alternate file, and proclaim the correct handling via
> ldraw.ini, it can't really distribute an ldraw.ini, since that file by
> definition contains local-machine-specific data.

True.  We'd probably load up a web page with links to the various files, and
maybe a script that lists them.

Steve



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  Re: In dev: new ldconfig.ldr file
 
(...) I never saw any of those discussions, and I pretty much kept silent about the original ldconfig.ldr file, because I never really gave the edge colors much thought. However, it seems to me that making all the edges black should be up to the (...) (22 years ago, 9-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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