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Re: L3P v1.3 for Mac OSX
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lugnet.cad.dev.mac
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Thu, 5 Dec 2002 18:11:52 GMT
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This is more of an issue with POV-Ray. It has everything to do with Macintosh
Meta data. l3p creates files with no meta data. If you type:
/Developer/Tools/GetFileInfo -c /path/to/.pov
/Developer/Tools/GetFileInfo -t /path/to/.pov
You get:
""
Which means l3p is not setting the creator or type stuff. What is really going
on is that POV-Ray will NOT open a file that does not have the type set to
"TEXT". If you set the creator to "POV3", then double clicking the document
will actually open it with POV-Ray.
Lars would have to add code that changes the meta data. But I think we should
bug POV-Ray to change their app to read files with no type or creator data. I
am kinda spending all of my free time split between trying to learn Andrew's
Ldraw Viewer, getting an installer for Travis Cobb's LDView available, one of
these days I need to update mac.ldraw.org, etc etc etc. I wouldn't mind some
non programmer to help me bug people...
Anyway, I am also planning on writing a GUI wrapper for l3p just like I did for
ldglite. I plan on using Cocoa though. I already have a progect that will run
NSTasks, I just need to learn the Cocoa AppKit framework GUI commands. I will
try to have a version out soon that will set the type and creator to POV-Ray.
--
Thanks:
James Reynolds
http://www.cc.utah.edu/~jer29950
james@scl.utah.edu
james.e.reynolds@m.cc.utah.edu
In lugnet.cad.dev.mac, Christopher Masi writes:
> In article <H6n6tH.LoH@lugnet.com>,
> "Lars C. Hassing" <lch@ccieurope.com> wrote:
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> > In lugnet.cad.dev.mac, Christopher Masi writes:
> > > Could l3p be changed to output the file in a slightly more convenient
> > > format?
> >
> > Sure, if you tell me what exactly what you want...
> > /Lars
>
> Well, I don't really know. As I said, James said to do this at the
> command line
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> /Developer/Tools/SetFile -c "POV3" -t "TEXT" /Users/yourname/yourfile.pov
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> and after doing that, the POV-Ray programs processed the files normally.
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> I don't know why POV-Ray would ignore the original file but process the
> file that simply had its creator and type changed. I am guessing that
> POV-Ray is set to only process text files, so if POV-Ray doesn't
> recognize the file as a text file then POV-Ray ignores the file (POV-Ray
> 3.5 OS X version) or tells the user that it cannot process a non-text
> files (POV-Ray 3.1 OS 9/Classic)/
>
> Thanks for making an OS X release of l3p. Even if I have to write a
> script to change the file type, it is still a lot better than having to
> run l3p in Virtual PC.
>
> Chris
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| (...) I suspected that POV-Ray was just being difficult, especially when simply adding (I didn't know if it was adding or changing the file type) the text file type. (...) Actually, that makes sense. But do you think that they are doing the "text (...) (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| (...) Well, I don't really know. As I said, James said to do this at the command line /Developer/Tools/SetFile -c "POV3" -t "TEXT" /Users/yourname/yourfile.pov and after doing that, the POV-Ray programs processed the files normally. I don't know why (...) (22 years ago, 5-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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