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In lugnet.cad.dev, Todd Lehman wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.mlcad, Michael Lachmann writes:
> > [...]
> > Version 1.6 and custom colors:
> > It is true that custom colors are not useable for LView or LEdit since the
> > custom colors are none-compatible extensions to the file format.
> >
> > When using "custom" or "redefined" colors you have to use MLCad to view the
> > model.
>
> Could you avoid writing out the file as a ".DAT" file extension if you are
> making extensions to the long established LDraw DAT file format?
>
> This would clear up confusion right away and avoid further incompatibility
> issues if other LDraw-clone programs take such liberties as well.
>
> Or, alternatively, is there something in the header of the DAT files that
> MLCad writes which clearly designates it as having been written from MLCad
> and thus is a non-standard format?
It would be better (IMO) to format non-LDraw information as LDraw-style
meta-commands, and keep everything in the DAT format. That gives the file the
widest transportability between programs.
Steve
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| (...) Could you avoid writing out the file as a ".DAT" file extension if you are making extensions to the long established LDraw DAT file format? This would clear up confusion right away and avoid further incompatibility issues if other LDraw-clone (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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