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Hi Andrew, I've been occupied lately but I was finally able to test drive 2.2b1 for many hours this past week. So, weighing in again... I'm absolutely enjoying MBC!... most especially now that I understand what you were saying about moving the field (...) (22 years ago, 30-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: lugnet.cad.dev (2004.03.03.1000) #9551 (1 article)
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(...) Well, there is Mac OS 8-9 and Mac OS X. Mac OS 8-9: The search path for the ini/pref file is: /System Folder/Preferences There is no where else it should be saved. Andrew can tell you what the format is (I don't think it is xml/plist). Mac OS (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths
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Where to store the preferences? While I've been aware of this thread, I haven't actually been following it, so correct me if I've got the wrong end of the stick. (...) MacOS 9 and earlier is a single user environment and it was easy to place (and (...) (22 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Mac Brick CAD 2.2b1 New Release
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(...) Many thanks for yet another update on MBC! Can I vote for yet another key mapping...? You've added the Delete key for deleting selected pieces, can you please also map the Backspace key to the same function, so that Powerbook users won't have (...) (22 years ago, 2-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths
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(...) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths
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"Don Heyse" <dheyse@hotmail.spam....away.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:HtwMAE.3BM@lugnet.com... (...) Done, sorry about that - but it was a hard day at work :-( (...) As mentioned earlier in this thread ... we should go with: 1) Users Home (...) (22 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths
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(...) 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. (URL) would be nice though to have a standard fallback location for the (...) (22 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad.dev)
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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 (...) (22 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) /etc would work, except it would require admin permission to install, which is something the Mac OS X community doesn't like for an installer/app that isn't a system modifying type of installer/app. Saving stuff in /etc/ will also not survive (...) (22 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Oops, I forgot to add this. These sort of restrictions mean a user may be forced to put extra search directories in their home directory. Rather than recognize $HOME or %USERPROFILE% in an absolute path, it might be nice to add a <HOME> (...) (22 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) I'm only willing to abandon environment variables if you're willing to go the distance and really try to work out a standard that we all can use. I, like Lars, was quite disappointed when you got impatient and cut short the previous discussion (...) (22 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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After the level of input from the previous release, I've managed to update MBC again to version 2.2b1 This release fixes a couple of major memory bugs and also mainly adds some of the features that have been requested recently (and before) It is now (...) (22 years ago, 29-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Mac Brick CAD 2.1b1 New Release
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(...) I am thinking of updating L3P Launcher so that it integrates more completely with POV-Ray. I'll add a POV-Ray window that allows you to set basic POV-Ray settings (like size, file format, etc). After the image renders, L3P Launcher will even (...) (22 years ago, 29-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) OK, that sounds fair. I believe it would be a good idea for MBC to report when a file (or files) are missing. A single list of all missing files would be much better than a dialog per file. As I found out, there does not appear to be any error (...) (22 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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Jim, Some great feedback, keep it comming. Rather than tackle uour suggestions, one by one, I've kept them and you will find many incorporated in future releases. There is a new release on the blocks - give me a few more days, this version has a (...) (22 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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I played with MBC for the first time last weekend and I had to stop and do a dance of joy! Thank you, thank, thank you! The thought of having to buy Virtual PC again just to work with OS X, loading it and Windoze, and then working with MCAD in slow (...) (22 years ago, 26-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) Ray, From the sounds of it you haven't installed the parts files. You need to either go to www.ldraw.org to get these files or downlad the version 2.0 with these files (it's the one that ends in .dmg). Rather than going through the whole (...) (22 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Mac Brick CAD 2.1b1 New Release
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(...) Hi, I just installed MBC 2.1b1 on an iMac G3/600Mhz running 10.2.6. While viewing the forklift sample file, one thing caught my eye: ltGray bushings floating in mid-air. The Instructions file shows a similar picture (M850 Forklift.dat) which (...) (22 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Mac Brick CAD 2.1b1 New Release
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(...) in reference to shift selecting multiple bricks (...) I just checked Mac Lego Modeler (MBC v0.1), MBC 0.2d1, MBC 0.5d2, and MBC 2.0b1. None of those older versions of MBC shift select for me. I simply assumed that shift selecting hadn't been (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Mac Brick CAD 2.1b1 New Release
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(...) Yes, I can use the text drawer to shift multiselect. (...) Nope, option clicking doesn't do that special rotation. (...) Nope, the command key doesn't reactivate model rotation. Chris (PB G3... I'm all for that mapping "delete" key to clear (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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