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Re: Feature Request - Unofficial Parts category
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lugnet.cad.mlcad
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Tue, 29 Oct 2002 15:04:45 GMT
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"Orion Pobursky" <bilthefish@IHATESPAMyahoo.com> wrote in message
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> In lugnet.cad.mlcad, Michael Horvath writes:
> > You can do this.
> > Just add the word "Unofficial" somewhere in the description of the part.
> > Then, rerun mklist.exe. Afterward, edit the file MLCad.grp in the MLCad
> > directory. To add a new category called "Unofficial", you would add the
> > following lines to MLCAd.grp:
> >
> > Unofficial
> > <Unofficial
> >
> > Also, remember to add 1 to the second number from the top for every • category
> > that you add.
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> >
> > Mike Horvath
>
> You could do this but it requires 2 things that are rather undesirable:
>
> -You have to go through all the unofficial part to make sure that all of
> them had the word "Unofficial". Since the unofficial library currently • has
> almost 1000 parts, this could be extremely time consuming.
>
> -You would have to unzip the unofficial parts into the \PARTS and \P
> directories. This is not a good idea for a number of reasons.
>
>
> Also, you don't have to hack the MLCad.grp file. You can add groups from
> within MLCad itself. Go to Setttings->Groups->Group Configuration. Once
> the popup appears, type in the name and search string for the new group • and
> click OK.
Don't the unofficial parts already have a comment line saying Unofficial
Part? So a simple way would be for MLCad to allow groups to be based on
comments lines as well as the part name - no changes needed to parts files,
and no need to edit all those parts.
Dan
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