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Re: Reporting on LDView for Mac OS X
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Date: 
Sun, 26 Dec 2004 16:24:05 GMT
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When you set the location of your ldraw directory, you have to choose
its parent rather than the "ldraw" folder itself. I didn't realize
this at first, so I intuitively picked my actual ldraw folder. The
confusing thing is it will work properly this way immediately after
you set it, but not the next time you run the program (it just
displays a blank black window - this wouldn't be the cause of one of
the known display problems, would it?).

Yeah, that is probably the source of all my current problems...

I believe the Mac OS X LDView is version 1 (Alex Raftis wasn't sure
what version of code he started with when he ported it).  The current
version is 3.  I believe it is possible to compile version 3 on Mac OS
X, but it requires X11, and several extras, most notably KDX.  I
haven't gotten around to installing these and trying it out, but I am
planning on trying it and at least working out any compile problems so
that those willing to install/use X11/KDX can run the latest LDView.

I would really like to see a native version of LDView on Mac OS X.  I
would especially like to see a screen saver version of it.  I do not
have the skills to port it though.

James



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: Reporting on LDView for Mac OS X
 
(...) Neat. Let us know if you succeed. Is KDX same as KDE? I use Apple's X11 with KDE for stuff at school, so I'm somewhat familiar with it (from a user's perspective at least). I may see if I can get it to work too.. although I agree a native (...) (20 years ago, 27-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
  Re: Reporting on LDView for Mac OS X
 
(...) If anyone has an old Mac (running Mac OS X) they want to donate to me (or loan for an unknown timespan), I'll port it myself. I've never done any actual Cocoa programming, but I did OpenStep programming for 5 years at the same company as Alex (...) (20 years ago, 30-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)

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  Reporting on LDView for Mac OS X
 
As I'm getting back in the swing of all things ldraw, I tried out the Mac OS X version of LDView ((URL) Pretty cool viewer - works well on my G4 running 10.3.7. No crazy interface artifacts. Encountered a couple little bugs, figured I'd mention them (...) (20 years ago, 21-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)

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