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    Lego Part Label Printer —Gary Williams
   I've created a simple Windows application for printing labels for identifying Lego part storage drawers. This program was written in under 24 hours, so the user interface isn't very polished. If you enter bad data, the program may crash with a (...) (23 years ago, 19-Aug-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)  
   
        Re: Lego Part Label Printer —Gary Williams
     Doh. Already a bug sneaked through. Filenames were getting truncated on the generated labels. I've fixed the problem and uploaded a patched version. -Gary (23 years ago, 19-Aug-01, to lugnet.storage)
   
        Re: Lego Part Label Printer —Ross Crawford
     (...) That's really good, Gary! Especially so quick! Would you be able to document the format of the LabelTemplates.txt file? I use avery 7160 (3 across 7 down) and it doesn't seem to be there 8?( Also, it seems to print the lines between the part (...) (23 years ago, 19-Aug-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
    
         Re: Lego Part Label Printer —Gary Williams
      (...) Thanks. :) (...) The format is: description,top margin,side margin,label height,label width,vpitch,hpitch,# columns,# rows "description" must be surrounded by double-quotes if it contains spaces. "vpitch" is the height of a label plus any gap (...) (23 years ago, 19-Aug-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
     
          Re: Lego Part Label Printer —Ludo Soete
      (...) HI Garry, Thanks a lot for the release of this utility so quick. I do have an other question: Can you, when possible, in one of the next releases, make it possible to enter the label dimensions in imperial or metric system in the LABEL DESIGN (...) (23 years ago, 20-Aug-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
     
          Re: Lego Part Label Printer —Gary Williams
      (...) DESIGN (...) Yes, I do intend to support dimensions in alternate measurement units. -Gary (23 years ago, 20-Aug-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
    
         Re: Lego Part Label Printer —Gary Williams
       "Ross Crawford" <rcrawford@csi.com> wrote in message news:GIApxn.C26@lugnet.com... (...) I just realized 7160 is an A4 sized label sheet. While you can add 7160 to the template file, the template selection dialog will display it incorrectly (but it (...) (23 years ago, 19-Aug-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
    
         Updated Lego Part Label Printer, version 1.1 —Gary Williams
     I've updated the program to version 1.1. Changes include: Access violation problem fixed (part 3026 had this problem, among others). Part list columns can be sorted by clicking on the column header. The extension is omitted when printing filenames. (...) (23 years ago, 19-Aug-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
    
         Re: Updated Lego Part Label Printer, version 1.1 —Marc Klein
      (...) ..... (...) First, thanks a lot for your program. It is exactly what I was looking for. Why don't you display the type 2 lines (edges defined by two points). This should render the parts more clearly as remarked, but with no unnecessary lines (...) (23 years ago, 20-Aug-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
     
          Re: Updated Lego Part Label Printer, version 1.1 —Gary Williams
      (...) for. If it is useful to someone then it was worth creating. (...) should render the parts more clearly as (...) polygon borders. Why not, indeed. Somehow I overlooked the type 2 DAT instructions. I will fix this for version 1.2. (...) I don't (...) (23 years ago, 20-Aug-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
     
          Re: Updated Lego Part Label Printer, version 1.1 —Ross Crawford
      (...) Count me as another person who's found it useful!! (...) You might also wanna do something with the optional lines (type 5?). A bit of extra calculation will be necessary to determine whether it needs displaying. (...) When removing them from (...) (23 years ago, 21-Aug-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
    
         Re: Updated Lego Part Label Printer, version 1.1 —Steve Demlow
     (...) I'm looking for current info on Gary's program. The original URL is dead, as is Gary's posted e-mail address. Does anyone have current contact info for Gary, know if the program is still available and what the new URL is, etc.? Thanks, Steve (22 years ago, 9-Oct-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
    
         Re: Updated Lego Part Label Printer, version 1.1 —Jake McKee
     (...) Any news on this? I would love to download the latest version, if one still exists. Jake --- Jake McKee Webmaster - B.I. Portal (URL) (21 years ago, 6-Apr-03, to lugnet.storage)
    
         Re: Updated Lego Part Label Printer, version 1.1 —Thomas Stangl
     Yeah, considering I am finally getting my collection sorted and reduced in size, being able to print the parts on labels, rather than just using text, would be really nice. (...) ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (21 years ago, 7-Apr-03, to lugnet.storage)
   
        Re: Lego Part Label Printer —Tore Eriksson
   Great idea! Sad thing I can't start it. I don't remember these terms in English, but it is something like: Illegal function call, exception error LPLP orsakade ett undantag eedfadeH i modul <okänd> på adress 0000:00000000. Registrerar: EAX=00000000 (...) (23 years ago, 19-Aug-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
   
        Re: Lego Part Label Printer —Gary Williams
    "Tore Eriksson" <tore.eriksson@mbox3...wipnet.se> wrote in message news:3B803EE3.98FD97...pnet.se... (...) it is something like: (...) Hmm. Did you download the template file and put it in the same folder? -Gary (23 years ago, 19-Aug-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
   
        Re: Lego Part Label Printer —Tore Eriksson
   Nope. I have done that now, but I think the new problem with I think these ... decimal signs that makes it impossible to use utilities like LDAO... All templates were invalid, and when printing: "'0.125' is not a valid floating point value." It was (...) (23 years ago, 19-Aug-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
   
        (canceled) —Gary Williams
   
        Re: Lego Part Label Printer —Marc Klein
   (...) I had the same crash problem. I changed the setting of my Win98 system, and then it worked. If I remember correctly, if you use the C standard function atof, it does not use the windows national settings for the decimal point sign. I hope this (...) (23 years ago, 20-Aug-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
   
        Re: Lego Part Label Printer —Gary Williams
   (...) and then it worked. If I remember correctly, if (...) settings for the decimal point sign. I use Delphi, not C, but I will correct this for the next version so that it functions correctly regardless of locale settings. -Gary (23 years ago, 20-Aug-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
 

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