To LUGNET HomepageTo LUGNET News HomepageTo LUGNET Guide Homepage
 Help on Searching
 
Post new message to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldrawOpen lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw in your NNTP NewsreaderTo LUGNET News Traffic PageSign In (Members)
 CAD / Development / Organizations / LDraw / 730
729  |  731
Subject: 
Re: Organizing the LDraw CD-ROM
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
Date: 
Thu, 10 Feb 2000 04:52:51 GMT
Viewed: 
74 times
  
In lugnet.cad.dev, Mike Stanley writes:
On Sun, 6 Feb 2000 00:07:56 GMT, "Tim Courtney" <tim@zacktron.com>
wrote:
How much of a pain?  Can it be as simple as a window prompting them to give
approval to add them?  Or is it much more painful than that?

Well, I don't like the idea of asking someone to install runtimes
before "my" program will work.  It looks cheesy, I think, and
unprofessional.  And it certainly wasn't an option for the company I
was doing this project for or for me, considering what they were
paying me.  So I sprung for APMSP.

If you're going to charge for the CD, I'd say you shouldn't make
people work to hard to install the stuff, especially to do something
as simple as run a menu.

Yeah, I agree here.

Being the design nut I am, does it allow pretty much complete freedom as to
how this menu will appear graphically?  I'd like to design the look to fit in
with the HTML guide, which will take on a souped up ldraw.org look with a
little more color (as I see it in my head now).

Download the fully functional trial version.  Won't let you create
installers that don't proclaim "hey, this hasn't been paid for" but I
think you'll like it.

Ok, will do.  I'll at least play around with it to get a feel.  Is it
WYSIWYG?  (I guess I'll find out)...

-Tim



Message has 1 Reply:
  Re: Organizing the LDraw CD-ROM
 
(...) You'll find out, and yes, it is a layout-type program. Get it setup the way you want it, and if I can take your saved project file and just compile it (you'd have to give me a place to grab the cd from, or maybe burn one copy for me) and burn (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

Message is in Reply To:
  Re: Organizing the LDraw CD-ROM
 
(...) Well, I don't like the idea of asking someone to install runtimes before "my" program will work. It looks cheesy, I think, and unprofessional. And it certainly wasn't an option for the company I was doing this project for or for me, (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

28 Messages in This Thread:








Entire Thread on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact

This Message and its Replies on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact
    

Custom Search

©2005 LUGNET. All rights reserved. - hosted by steinbruch.info GbR