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(...) I'd like something like that too. Although I don't think there's currently anything that will make the whole instructions for you, Bricksmith's "Export Steps" option may be a useful start. It creates a separate LDraw file for each step in your (...) (19 years ago, 3-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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Hi, I need some programm to create bitmaps (or other file formats) stepwise instructions, just like the old Ldraw did in DOS. I tried ldglite, but it just shows a white window, even after loading a model. Do I need some addtional software? I am (...) (19 years ago, 3-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: LDView 3.1 on Mac OS X!
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(...) Indeed. (...) Well that's the part I disagree with. Everyone is different, and making assumptions about what people will want to use is always bad for program developers. The choice should be the user's, not the programmer's. (...) That may be (...) (19 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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Before I say anything else, I want to point out that as the author of LDView my comments here are necessarily biased. So keep that in mind as you read them. (...) I disagree that it's not useful to have the unofficial parts in another directory. (...) (19 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: txt2dat on Mac OS X (was Re: Announcing Bitsticker)
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(...) Here is my rudimentary makefile for building txt2dat on my Mac and a linux machine. No guarantees it will work for anyone else but hopefully it could be helpful. Also a copy of txt2dat.c containing my quick checks to get around the lack of (...) (19 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: txt2dat on Mac OS X (was Re: Announcing Bitsticker)
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(...) I believe it is freetype 2.1.4 (based on the major/minor/patch definitions in freetype.h). The headers are last dated 2002, and a look at more recent freetype changelogs suggests that predates the introduction of "FTOrientation." It's annoying (...) (19 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: txt2dat on Mac OS X (was Re: Announcing Bitsticker)
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(...) Hmmm, interesting. txt2dat is currently compiled against 2.1.9, I haven't tried upgrading since txt2dat is the only thing I use it for. But the API doc at the freetype site still documents (URL) FTOrientation API>. Also, version 2.3.1 (which I (...) (19 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | txt2dat on Mac OS X (was Re: Announcing Bitsticker)
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(...) Hi Ross, It works! I just built it by hand, so I'll write a simple makefile for it tomorrow. Only issue is that the version of Freetype 2 that comes with OS X doesn't seem to know about FTOrientation, so I just ifdeffed out the few bits that (...) (19 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Mac MPD Utility obsolescence
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Man, I just realized that my old (URL) MPD Utility> is still listed on LDraw.org. Frankly, I don't think there's still a need for it, and I wouldn't really trust it to "do the right thing" with any given MPD. It was sort of cobbled together as a (...) (19 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: LDView 3.1 on Mac OS X!
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(...) Sure, but as I said, you can't be 100% certain that the contents of the standard LDraw directory are all official and vice versa, so the best way to manage them (in my opinion) is lump them all together, and have a program that helps you (...) (19 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: LDView 3.1 on Mac OS X!
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It's me the user that wants to know which unofficial parts I've downloaded and am using, and thus which may require updating, deleting, or something. For me it is purely a user-management issue. My program doesn't really care if a part is Official (...) (19 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: LDView 3.1 on Mac OS X!
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(...) Well the other thing to consider is that with the adoption of the standard header on DAT files, there really is no *need* to store unofficial files in a different sub-directory, because programs will be able to tell which files are unofficial (...) (19 years ago, 1-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: LDView 3.2 on Mac OS X with Qt 3.3.7 status report
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I've tried a little (without success) to get QT4 to build as a universal static library. If I get that working, I'll see if I can't work out the QT4-specific bugs. While the border and extra space on top aren't good in the QT4 version, the overall (...) (19 years ago, 1-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: LDView 3.2 on Mac OS X with Qt 3.3.7 status report
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(...) I think I forgot to mention that using Qt 3 also restored "polling" mode, which broke with Qt 4. Jim (19 years ago, 1-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | LDView 3.2 on Mac OS X with Qt 3.3.7 status report
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Just an update on my LDView tinkering. I got Qt 3.3.7 compiled and used it to rebuild the current LDView 3.2 code. As predicted in the other LDView thread, using Qt 3.3.7 instead of Qt 4.2.2 resolved some of the issues I'd observed, most notably the (...) (19 years ago, 1-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Unofficial directory (with non-standard name lenght)? (Was: LDView 3.1 on Mac OS X!)
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(...) So far, we have maintained the old DOS convention of max. 8 chars and no SPACE used in folder names. I realize that fewer and fewer programs and utils are made in DOS evironments, maybe I'm the only to still make quick 'n' dirty programs in (...) (19 years ago, 28-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: Bricksmith tips and techniques
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(...) I hope you are not alarmed that someone has been snooping around in there! :) In fact, I hadn't actually tried to commit anything; frankly, I'd just left that as an exercise for anyone else who thought the colorized icons were handy (which (...) (19 years ago, 27-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Bricksmith tips and techniques
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(...) Thanks. I love to have happy users! (...) Good gosh, someone is even digging through my CVS repository! The reason you're not able to commit anything, incidentally, is because you are not listed as a Developer on my project. Anyway, if you (...) (19 years ago, 27-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LDView 3.1 on Mac OS X!
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I'm delighted to see another developer supporting the Macintosh. (...) Yeah, LDraw/Unofficial just seemed like the logical choice. That was feature that went nowhere, though. I never even documented it, because I didn't think anyone else supported (...) (19 years ago, 27-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Bricksmith tips and techniques
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(...) Hey, cool axes. Yes, I'm still really using ldglite. Hoever, I just got a new MacBook! Hey, I wonder if the new development tools will compile a a "fat" binary of ldglite. I'll have to look into that when I have the time. Chris (19 years ago, 25-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad)
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