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Re: Announcing Bricksmith for Macintosh
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lugnet.cad.dev.mac
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Wed, 24 Aug 2005 21:01:40 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.mac, James Reynolds wrote:
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- Wow -- an LDraw editor that I can just download and use! I didn’t have to install anything extra or futz about with paths; I just downloaded the complete package and double-clicked the icon. Beautiful.
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Sure it’s handy, but i wonder whether the LDraw Standard Commitee and the
Jessiman family will agree.
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Yeah, you aren’t suppose to distribute the library with your app.
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Well that just sucks. They don’t want too many people using LDraw, I guess?
Because many users simply won’t jump through that many hoops to get started.
They’ll download a CAD program, double-click it, see scary messages about LDraw
not being found, and (in many cases) give up at that point and go do something
more fun. This is especially true on the Mac, where many users just want to use
the dang thing rather than spend all day fiddling with it. ;)
So I hope Allen can convince them to let him continue distributing his app both
with and without LDraw contained. I don’t see how this hurts anyone, and it
makes it accessible to people who just wouldn’t succeed with it otherwise.
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The cool shniz would be to have the app auto find the library or download it >
for you if it can’t find it though!
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Well yes, that would be cool, though not as cool as having it just unpack and be
ready to run. And it’s a lot more work for the developer.
Best,
- Joe
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| (...) Yes, but it is the best way. When the library isn't found, just display a window asking "1). browser for library" "2). search for library" "3). download library and install (New uses select this)" That should keep the low-attention-span Mac OS (...) (19 years ago, 25-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Announcing Bricksmith for Macintosh
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| (...) Yeah, you aren't suppose to distribute the library with your app. The cool shniz would be to have the app auto find the library or download it for you if it can't find it though! The path should never change: (URL) looked at the app yet but (...) (19 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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