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Re: LDView 3.1 on Mac OS X!
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lugnet.cad.dev.mac
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Thu, 1 Mar 2007 21:32:05 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.mac, Allen Smith wrote:
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I’m delighted to see another developer supporting the Macintosh.
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I’m glad that Bricksmith can make use of them. Does it have a UI to add
new directories to the part search path?
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Nope, so I had feared it might not be able to access them. However, I’ve
checked and Unofficial is hard-coded as the unofficial parts directory
name (in Source/Other/MacLDraw.h, for those following along at home). You
can set the LDraw directory, of course, so it will just look for an
“Unofficial” directory within that.
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Interesting. I wonder if it was just a coincidence that we both chose the
same hard-coded directory for Unofficial parts, or if Bricksmith’s author
saw that I had used it. I suspect the former, since LDView didn’t work on
the Mac.
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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 it. (L3P?) I really wish LDraw would
define a standard Unofficial parts folder. Right now I just set the Finder’s
label color to red for any unofficial parts and then blithely dump them in my
LDraw folder.
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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 from the header. (In fact it’s already possible, as this has been an
“unofficial standard” for quite some time.)
Having said that, I can see the argument that it’s nice from a programming
standpoint to keep them separate. However, I’m not sure that’s a strong enough
argument (for me) to make it an official LDraw standard. For users, it makes
little difference - if they are downloading unofficial files, they probably know
what they’re doing anyway, and would possibly find it beneficial to have all DAT
files together, so that programs that don’t support all standards (ie: directory
search) can still access them easily.
And programs need to check the header anyway, because it’s easy for unofficial
files to end up in the the standard parts directory, and vice versa. Programs
can’t assume that all files in the standard parts directory are official, and
all in the unofficial directory are unofficial.
So my current thinking is it should be an option that can be selected (in each
program) by the user. And I think the default for programs that download them
automatically should be to put them in the standard LDraw parts directory. And
as such it shouldn’t be a standard enforced by the LDraw org.
ROSCO
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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 (...) (18 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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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 (...) (18 years ago, 27-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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