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Is there a procedure for adding part updates to the parts library on a Mac? Has anyone figured out a way to automate it? I've noticed that the updates have folders within folders. Am I correct in guessing that I want to keep the contents of the old (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Mac Brick CAD 2.0b1
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Following some months of work I have now blaced Mac Brick CAD 2.0b1 on my .Mac site: (URL) 2.0b1 is the renaming of the Cocoa version so as to avoid confusion with the Carbon / Classic versions. Two seperate installations are available: For existing (...) (23 years ago, 29-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | LCX released
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I'm finally releasing LCX (Ken Dyke's little Cocoa editor). It is missing alot of features. I'm mainly releasing this so others can check it out. Nobody is working on the code. Well, I did add a text field for changing the ldraw folder location (and (...) (23 years ago, 19-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Central location for LDraw prefs
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(...) Don, We're almost there. I'm on the road most of this week, so I'm getting in a little work on the bundle as conditions permit. I have a crudely hacked double-clickable mklist.app that I'll send to Chris to test out when I get back home (...) (23 years ago, 10-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | MBC Cocoa question
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I received the following question from Joe Brandt and as my reply was returned by the mail administrator, I will answer it here. Joe made the following observation: (...) The answer is as follows, Your problem with part 43p01 is a bug in my (...) (23 years ago, 9-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Central location for LDraw prefs
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(...) I didn't think so, but I wanted to be sure because... (...) This'll take a while because I have to write (or find) some code to do it. The envinronment.plist contents are automagically tranformed into environment variables by the nice folks at (...) (23 years ago, 9-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Central location for LDraw prefs
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(...) Doing both isn't a problem. Actually, the question I had was how soon ldglite would check both locations. Tom (23 years ago, 9-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Central location for LDraw prefs
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(...) To be honest, I'm not fussed either way. I guess if you use multiple Ldraw applications, then using a single preferences file for all programs to locate the Ldraw directory makes sence. My only concern is that the file only be used to store (...) (23 years ago, 8-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Central location for LDraw prefs
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(...) Ok, but remember James used the word "eventually" a few messages back. I wouldn't skip the environment.plist file in favor of the org.ldraw.plist file just yet. Do both files, or just the environment.plist file if both is too much work. (...) (23 years ago, 8-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Central location for LDraw prefs
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(...) I like the idea of a single repository of ldraw-related settings. I'd also be satisfied with the short version of the plist name (with org.ldraw.apps second). The key and string for LDRAWDIR do match the draft environment.plist contents from (...) (23 years ago, 7-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Central location for LDraw prefs
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(...) Sorry! No, I meant a preference window. James (23 years ago, 7-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Central location for LDraw prefs
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(...) When you say "pref pane" do you mean a "PreferencePane" that goes into "System Preferences...", or do you mean just a way to set the preferences from a dialog box opened by selecting "Preferences..." from the application's "Application" menu? (...) (23 years ago, 7-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Central location for LDraw prefs
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I vote for org.ldraw.plist because it's short and simple. However I could probably be convinced to go for org.ldraw.ldrawconfig.plist because it's like com.apple.internetconfig.plist, or maybe org.ldraw.apps.plist, but not the one with mac in it. To (...) (23 years ago, 7-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Central location for LDraw prefs
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(...) No, Apple doesn't encourage that. And you are right, it shouldn't be named org.ldraw.ldrawdir.plist. Most preferences for a single application are stored in a single file. Some applications use entire folders (especially web browsers--so they (...) (23 years ago, 7-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Central location for LDraw prefs
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(...) Unless I'm misunderstanding, I think you would be much better off if you drop ".ldrawdir" from the plist filename above. That way the file can contain other settings in the future in addition to the LDRAWDIR setting you have now. Or put (...) (23 years ago, 7-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Central location for LDraw prefs
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(...) These two pages discuss everything you could want to know. (URL) preferences format: The most common preference file format is an xml file with the file extension ".plist" with this DTD: (URL) propose the code to be: <key>LDRAWDIR</key> (...) (23 years ago, 7-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Central location for LDraw prefs
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(...) That's a reasonable goal. We made some similar progress recently in Windows with the ldraw.ini file. So, where is the Library/Preferences/* usage documented. I don't know anything about it. Could you point me to a document like qa1067.html (...) (23 years ago, 7-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Central location for LDraw prefs
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(...) LOL, I guess so. James (23 years ago, 6-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Central location for LDraw prefs
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(...) Dang. So already there has to be 2 locations: ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist, and Library/Preferences/*pref name* That is ok. What if we all agree that if our app changes the ldraw directory, it will change it in both places? Same with the (...) (23 years ago, 6-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Central location for LDraw prefs
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(...) Does this mean that my little invention, the LDRAWDIR environment string, is spread to Macs, too? Sorry for the intrusion, but this is a true ego trip, my little "child" is found in so many system settings of computers all over the world. I (...) (23 years ago, 6-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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