| |
In lugnet.cad.mlcad, Travis Cobbs writes:
> Well, the parts library all by itself is 21.1 megs (at least the one I have
> is). While this will technically fit on a 64 meg device (and maybe even on
> a 32 meg device), I doubt too many people would want to devote such a large
> percentage of their available memory to it. A viewer could presumably be
> made that would be capable of loading the parts from a memory card, but this
> might take a lot of work (then again, it might not; I have no idea).
I think you could make a big dent in that one by keeping the library in
a jar or zip file and using popen() with unzip.
> I think the biggest problem, though, is the fact that a vast majority of all
> Pocket PC devices have a 240x320 screen resolution.
> The ledit-based editing functionality in LDGLite might work better; I
> haven't used it, but I assume it doesn't require much screen real estate.
I've actually used it at that resolution for small models and to look
at parts. I think the pyramid picture on the ldglite website gives you
some idea of what you'll see.
> On the other hand, it would probably be feasible to port a Windows-based DAT
> VIEWER to PocketPC devices. A port of something like L3Lab might even be
> fairly straightforward (assuming you get rid of the tool bar and optimize
> the interface for small size). With something like L3Lab, it could probably
> even qualify as more a port than a rewrite from scratch. Mind you, I have
> no idea what the performance would be like. But for MLCAD, it seems to me
> that there's just too big of a difference between the environments for a
> "port" to be feasible.
> p.s. Unless somebody knows about an OpenGL driver for PocketPC, my own
> LDView app won't be able to be ported.
There's something called pocketgl for the PocketpPC, and perhaps tinygl
could be convinced to work. I've actually built the DOS version of
tinygl in an attempt to slim down the DOS port of ldglite. Actually I
think there may also be something called tinygl for Palm PDAs.
Don
FUT set to lugnet.cad.dev
|
|
Message is in Reply To:
 | | Re: MLCAD for PALM?
|
| (...) Well, the parts library all by itself is 21.1 megs (at least the one I have is). While this will technically fit on a 64 meg device (and maybe even on a 32 meg device), I doubt too many people would want to devote such a large percentage of (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
|
5 Messages in This Thread:
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
