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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 16:32:22 GMT
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Daniel Crichton wrote:
> "Orion Pobursky" <bilthefish@IHATESPAMyahoo.com> wrote in
> message news:H4qAnF.n1n@lugnet.com...
> > 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.
> > 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.
Unfortunately is this no option because MLCad looks for parts
in the parts.lst. And there are only the first lines of each
dat-file.
CU Bernd
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| "Bernd Broich" <bernd.broich@online.de> wrote in message news:H4r4My.809@lugnet.com... (...) I'd forgotten about that. Oh well. In that case I could probably knock together a VB script that could look for the comment Unofficial part and add (...) (22 years ago, 30-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Feature Request - Unofficial Parts category
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| "Orion Pobursky" <bilthefish@IHATESPAMyahoo.com> wrote in message news:H4qAnF.n1n@lugnet.com... (...) category (...) has (...) and (...) Don't the unofficial parts already have a comment line saying Unofficial Part? So a simple way would be for (...) (22 years ago, 29-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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