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Hi! Its been a while since I've worked with ldglte on my Mac, or with any LDraw-related things in general, so I've been sort of out of the loop. Please forgive any redundant comments I make, and the haphazard organization of this post. Thanks! OK, (...) (23 years ago, 11-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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After a month of playing with Cocoa, two weeks ago I returned to the Classic and Carbon versions of Ldraw Viewer. The results of my toil is Ldraw Viewer 0.4.2 which can be found here: (URL) include a total memory rewrite (to hopefully stop the (...) (23 years ago, 3-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Don, I look forward to figuring this one out, but since it was not immediately obvious to me how to use it, I put it aside for now. (Just too much crap going on at the moment.) Thanks for bringing it to the Mac. Chris (23 years ago, 1-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) I couldn't find it anywhere in this thread, so the project page is here: (URL) on the Browse CVS link near the bottom to view the source code. The homepage is here: (URL) just to test things out a bit, I logged into the sourceforge compile (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) OK, I might be insane, but I just did ./ldglitef -MS (or -ms) mini.dat and I got png's or bmp's in my ldraw/bitmap folder. No windows opened. ldglitef is the ldglite exacutable from June22. Did you sneak this feature into an old release and (...) (23 years ago, 14-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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Sorry for the delay, been pretty busy. (...) Not on OSX. If it opens a Window then it's not using the offscreen feature. Offscreen means no window. Other than that it's very similar to the lowercase -ms option. (...) The default in ldglite is to (...) (23 years ago, 13-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: LDRAW Viewer 0.4 problem and more
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(...) OK, up to now I have been working with very small models, but last night I decided to add some track under one of my engines (I am into trains if you didn't know). Selecting bricks on a large model (ca. 800 bricks) is slow (very slow). So, (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Actually I never reported this bug, only just experienced it too. Keep poking... On other news my Cocoa version is now displaying models on the screen - I spent 4 days with frustrating crashes. Are there any more issues with verision 0.4 that (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) OK... this is why I am confused about the new feature... doesn't it already exist in LDGLite? I ran the command line above with LDGLiteOSX 0.9.5f (I think it is 0.9.5f, anyway the get info says created Jun 22, 2002) and the "bitmap" folder (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) No problem. So what about the offscreen rendering? Does it work? (URL) render offscreen you use -MS on the ldglite command line, eg. ldglite -v3 -l3 -i1 -MS mymodel.mpd (23 years ago, 9-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Went there, downloaded it, followed the directions to compile it, followed the directions to install it, launched LDGLite in LEDIT mode, and it works as advertised. LDGLite accepts keyboard input now. Next question is, when will Apple (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) I wondered if that's what you meant. Anyhow, the GLUT fix is now available at: (URL) according to fix number 13, it should now accept keyboard input. You'll have to let us know how well it works. It also looks like fix number 3 could benefit (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) I suspect that you are right. I think I that LDGLIte reported GL_Version 1.1 when I was using LDGLite on 10.1.x. I go search the Mac news groups to get more infor GL_VERSION = 1.1 APPLE-1.1 (...) Oops, three missing letters can change the (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) I'm not sure if the framework number is the same as the OpenGL version number. However I think ldglite prints the opengl version number when run from a command prompt so you could check it that way. Maybe it only installs the new OpenGL if you (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Hmm. When I run Apple System Profiler I get the following entries AGL.framework 2.2.7 18 Dec 2002 01:23 AM OpenGL Carbon compatibility dylib for Mac OS X GLUT.framework 2.2.7 18 Dec 2002 01:29 AM GLUT dylib for Mac OS X OpenGL.framework 1.2.1 (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Did I overlook a known bug list? If I did I'll read through it before reporting any other problems. I am not trying to be pushy, I am just offereing the only service that I can offer, guinea pig :) Keep building and I'll keep poking. Chris (23 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Would that make an OSX user more likely to want to do an offscreen render? The way I see it, the offscreen rendering is really only useful if you want it for a background process like a CGI script in a web server, or if you wanted to generate (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) [snip] (...) Cuz most new cards (on OSX) do Accelerated-Offscree...ndering!!! Yep! Fast-as if not faster than to screen(some PCI cards too). Best DaveG (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) According to this page they've made quite a few GLUT fixes. (URL) not sure what effect they'll have, if any. Meanwhile I finally managed to find some code examples for offscreen rendering with OpenGL on a Mac. I have no idea if it works or not (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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Christopher, your new bug, (...) actually I have also encountered this one, but as yet have been too lazy to do anything about it. I believe it only affects the carbon version and according to the Apple technical litereature there is an alternative (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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