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Re: Mac LDraw Viewer comments
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Sat, 21 Dec 2002 13:57:15 GMT
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Christopher,
Excellent feedback, keep it comming. This way I can improve the software
more easily. Otherwise I develop using mushroom theory (working in the dark).
> I started up LDraw Viewer 0.3.1 on a PowerBook G3 (FireWire), ATI(AGP)
> 128 bit Rage Mobility with 8 MB VRAM, 640 MB RAM and made the following
> observations: • Which OS are you using?
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> In classic, 1x4x5 solid door with 4 pane window the same color as
> regular bricks.
> In carbon, blue with white suit stencil minifig top is darker than other
> blue bricks.
> Transparent elements, trans clear windshield and trans red 1x1 round
> plate, look gray.
Both versions use the same code to display the models, however the OpenGL
library code is different for the Carbon and Classic versions. So I don't
actually directly control the onscreen colours (Interesting observation
though). When Ldraw Viewer encounters a colour it doesn't recognise it
defaults to grey, thus your experiences with the transparent parts. Please
send me the numbers of colours you are using and I will incorporate them
(Ldraw Viewer 0.4 is about 2 days away).
> Created a new document by pressing ³command + n²
> The contents of the window named ³mini.dat² changed to a gray 2x4 brick.
> Selected ³Save² from the file menu while trying to select ³Save as...²
> Oops, I think I have a back-up of the model I just erased.
I think you have found a bug - I will fix it.
> Dialogue box went away and an empty window called untitled appeared.
> Pressed ³command + i²
> Application crashed.
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> Never thought I would do that huh? :)
You are dead right there, what I will do is this; if the user selects
cancel, then I will select new file. Actually the crash makes sense, the
insert routine assumes an existing file is open as a result, there no catch
for an empty file.
> Bugs
> Pressing (command + D) in ³Save as...² dialogue box does not change
> location to desktop. The edit menu lights up instead (trying to do a
> delete?)
I wasn't even aware of that keyboard short cut.
> Not reproducible
Unreproducable crashes are a problem as they are hard to track.
Unfortunately compounding these problems, on my deveploment machines DDR
Dual 1 Ghz (512k), ATI Radeon 9000 Pro(64k) with OS 10.2.1 - Carbon version
and G4/400 Yikes (192k), ATI Rage 128(16k) with OS 9.1 - Classic version it
never crashes.
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> Bad Form
> New documents should open with a new name, not the old documents name.
> Parts are listed ³.dat² file based on the part from which they came but
> in reverse chronological order. This is going to be a compatibility
> problem, or do(will) steps get inserted in the right order?
Using the insert command places a copy of the part in the line imediately
before the part that was originally selected (that is the desired behavior).
However I have recognised that this is a shortcomming, so in version 0.4 I
have a new additional command called "duplicate part" that copies the part
to the end of the Ldraw file. This is more useful in my experience.
> Feature requests
> Change default to ³.ldr²? Is LDraw.org campaining for this?
> Command keys for opening color dialogue box and selecting colors.
> Command keys for opening part number dialog box.
> Command keys for part orientation.
I have the contextual menu to cover these actions (control click on a
selected part). I may consider keyboard shortcuts in the future.
> Selecting multiple bricks simultaneously. • This will come later when I wrap my head around how to do this elegantly.
> Individual white bricks are very difficult to see. Different color
> backgrounds, or better lighting.
Changing the background is trivial - I will look into it. One feature that
is overdue is a prefrences dialog - it belongs there.
> Get Mac OS X to recognize files created by LDraw Viewer as files that
> should be opened by LDraw Viewer. (Or is this Mac OS X 10.2.2
> misbehaving since I cannot seem to get the ³Change All², in the ³Get
> Info² window, option for all dat files to work.
Icons and attaching files is overdue, I need to do two things here firstly I
need to register the program with apple so I can use my own file creator
codes. The I need to clean up the Icons - all I need is a 48 hour day or
even better stop sleeping - spending 8 hours a day doing nothing annoys me
alot (but I digress).
> Multiple windows open at the same time? • Low priority at the moment.
> Better looking transparent brick rendering?
There are Ldraw rules but as said above tell me the colour numbers and I
will add them to the list - I also note that there seems to be several
values for transparent bricks in use.
Thanks for your feedback, as said above, I will have a version 0.4 by the
end of the weekend. If I receive the colours from you they will be included.
Additionally I will include some of the features you mention.
Andrew...
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