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Brickbay Temp URL Available —Dan Jezek

For those interested, I have a beta version 0.7 running. There are still bugs but most of the functionality for selling parts (only) are there. Here is a page with the temporary URL: (URL) stay connected overnight so the URL should work for some (...) (24 years ago, 23-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping) !

Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Mike Walsh

Looks good, as a customer I am looking forward to this service. Looks like all of your "&nbsp" are missing the semicolon required to make it valid HTML though. Lots and lots of "&nbsp" sprinkled about the few pages I looked at. Mike "D. Jezek" (...) (24 years ago, 23-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)

Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Dan Jezek

(...) Yeah, I never put a semicolon after nbsp. What browser are you using? This problem doesn't occur in IE 5.01. It might now work in Netscape yet, the tables will be thrown all over the place and forms will not show. (...) (24 years ago, 23-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)

Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Lindsay Frederick Braun

Dan- (...) Hmmm...when I try to register as a seller, it tells me in blood red that I have not chosen a payment option (I chose all but personal cheques) and a country (there's no box for it). I'm using Navigator 4.6, and I too get the &nbsp tags. (...) (24 years ago, 23-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)

Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Lindsay Frederick Braun

Ah, forgot to do this: I checked the site out with MSIE 5.00. The tables are OK (as they are on Navigator). The country window does show up on MSIE. The payment checkboxes register as selections when checked on MSIE. Both of these two items do not (...) (24 years ago, 23-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)

Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Dan Jezek

(...) Navigator). (...) Navigator and (...) registration form (...) the store (...) that (...) popular for (...) cursorily (...) Only sellers need to be approved, buyers are automatically approved right away. (...) Maybe 10 if that's long enough. (...) (24 years ago, 23-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)

Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Lindsay Frederick Braun

Hi, [By the way, the "bgok" user is probably me--if it shows up as some contrived awful stupid Gomer name. Why it took that and still gave me an error message, I don't know.] (...) OK. I didn't know if the seller-approval would be automatic in the (...) (24 years ago, 23-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)

Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Dan Jezek

(...) zero? (...) knowing (...) you. (...) I thought that not removing each item when quantity gets down to zero is more to the seller's benefit. If I part out a new batch of sets and they contain some of the pieces that I already have in my (...) (24 years ago, 24-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)

Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —James Brown

(...) Ideally, of course, this would be configurable, but my preference would be for C) and B) thereafter. In other words, display the item as SOLD for a day or so, and then have it disappear. (...) Again, ideally the choice is C). Failing that, I'd (...) (24 years ago, 24-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)

Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Lindsay Frederick Braun

(...) Configurability would be the very best solution IMHO as a seller, but probably an ordeal to implement (though I may be wrong on this). However, the second option James mentions sounds good as well; the more I think about it, the more I like (...) (24 years ago, 24-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)

Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Dan Jezek

(...) perhaps a (...) more (...) contain (...) the (...) selecting (...) they (...) shopping (...) for (...) probably an (...) option (...) implying (...) in a (...) again (...) get (...) A) (...) to (...) perhaps the (...) stores that (...) site (...) (24 years ago, 25-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)

Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Steve Bliss

(...) The (currently unwritten) terms of use for LDraw specify that you can do whatever you want with the images you generate from the LDraw data. Will you have an image for each part, in each color? It would be very nice to not have strictly gray (...) (24 years ago, 25-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)

Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Lindsay Frederick Braun

(...) I don't think grey images should be necessary--but why not a white part on a white background, to indicate monochromaticity instead of the colour white? That would keep bandwidth as low as possible and keep us to a single image. However, if (...) (24 years ago, 25-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)

Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Dan Jezek

(...) Highly unlikely. There are 2,500 parts * 20 colors = 50,000 images! It would be nice if you could generate parts from MLCAD in Batch Mode. That is, you'd just specify the color, part and image size as parameters on the command line and the (...) (24 years ago, 25-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)

Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Steve Bliss

(...) So? ;) (...) LDLite will do this. The only drawbacks are that the output always goes to ldraw/bitmap/, and the filename is munged with the step number. So make sure the bitmap directory is always kept empty, generate the file, and just take (...) (24 years ago, 25-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)

Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Jake McKee

Steve, do tell! How does one get this function to work in LDLite? Thanks jake (...) (24 years ago, 25-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.cad)

Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Steve Bliss

You just start LDLite from a command prompt, with a -MS option. MS is for "Mode Save". Something like: c:\ldraw\ldlite\ldlite 3001.dat -MS (assuming LDLite is installed in c:\ldraw\ldlite\) Steve (...) (24 years ago, 30-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.cad)

Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Troy Cefaratti

Would it be possible to set up a script to do all the parts in all the colors? If so, I'd be willing to run it, process the pictures, and host them from my simplenet site. As it is right now, making each one in MLCAD would probably take me a year to (...) (24 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)

Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Dan Jezek

(...) The 80x60 thumbnails take at an average 3K. To have 50,000 of them would require 150MB of disk space which is about 1/2 of the total Brickbay webhosting disk space so it _is_ possible. The question is, who would do all the rendering? And what (...) (24 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)

Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Mike Stanley

(...) If Steve (or someone else) can give directions for doing this in a mostly automated way I can leave my new 850 at home running it while I'm at work. I have scads of free hard drive space and a fast connection (from work - I can burn the images (...) (24 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)

Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Christopher L. Weeks

(...) This is one of the biggest things I miss about running the computer labs at The University of Missouri. I had what felt like ubiquitous computing. I could have slid >20GB onto the web or more onto the campus backbone, assigned any.edu as a web (...) (24 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)

Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Mike Stanley

(...) I know what you mean. Especially since I run the computer labs at the University of Tennessee. :) Actually, though, the space I could provide would come in the form of space on either an account I paid for, a machine I own (but it IS on the (...) (24 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)

Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Steve Bliss

(...) Hmm. It needs just a bit of programming. Something like the following, depending on your development toys (view in fixed-pitch font for best results). Note: CONVERT.EXE is part of ImageMagick, available for most platforms. // Process all (...) (24 years ago, 30-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)

Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Troy Cefaratti

Is there a way to get LDLITE to have the image of the part take up all of the available space in the image file? I've been playing with this off and on, and am trying to get the part to be as big as will fit in the image. All I seem to get is an (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jun-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)

Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Steve Bliss

(...) No, there isn't any kind of 'auto-zoom' setting for LDLite (nor LDraw). It would be nice if there were. Both for the really big models (to scale them down) and the really little ones (to scale them up). Steve (24 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.cad)

Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Dan Jezek

(...) preceding (...) indeed (...) to the (...) wanted (...) took only (...) states) That is not an error. Category "Minifig, Whole" is defined in the system as a "no show" meaning that the category will not be displayed along with the part name. In (...) (24 years ago, 24-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)

Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Dan Jezek

(...) have (...) tags. I haven't even looked at it in Netscape and it would probably be a good idea to do so. But thanks for letting me know of all the errors that you got. They'll be fixed. (...) change (...) listed (...) all (...) I dunno about (...) (24 years ago, 23-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)

Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Christopher L. Weeks

(...) Cool. What kinds of stuff do you want us to mention? I'm using Netscape 4.72. Do you want us to point out that Lego is supposed to be LEGO (isnt' it?) and that you need some kind of (tm) doohicky, or just technical stuff? Does the fact that on (...) (24 years ago, 23-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)

Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Dan Jezek

(...) bugs (...) Before the final integrated testing where everyone who participates gets free parts, I'll make sure everything works as far down as Navigator 3.0 and IE 3.0. Of course if you choose to be a seller at the site you should have as wide (...) (24 years ago, 24-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)

Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Troy Cefaratti

Hmmm..... I can't seem to find a "sell" button anywhere..... (and I'm using IE 5) Troy (24 years ago, 23-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)

Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Lindsay Frederick Braun

(...) It should be on the blue menubar just under "The Unofficial Online Lego Store." best LFB (24 years ago, 23-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)

Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Troy Cefaratti

(...) Blue menu bar? Seriously, there is a blue bar going down the right side of the page, but I don't see anything in it at all.... Perhaps IE 5.00.2919.6307 isn't the most current version.... Troy (24 years ago, 23-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)

Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Lindsay Frederick Braun

(...) Hm, do you have frames turned off? Yours is the same as the build I have, I doubt there are any serious differences. It's not really a button, but a link. best LFB (24 years ago, 23-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)

Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Troy Cefaratti

(...) but I (...) I (...) link. Frames are on. I get the top frame with the search in it and the bottom frame, which has the blue bar on the left, and "lego shops" and "auctions" in the middle. Perhaps my system is having trouble with the .asp or (...) (24 years ago, 23-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)

Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Troy Cefaratti

(...) but I (...) I (...) link. OK, I think that I may have figured out the problem. I've switched to another computer, running IE 5, and can see PART of the blue menu bar mentioned. Unfortunately, I can only see about half of it, witht he rest (...) (24 years ago, 23-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)

Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Troy Cefaratti

Changing the resolution doesn't seem to help, the menubar still doesn't show up on my win98 machine. The top frame gets cut off right under the "The Unofficial Lego Superstore" line. Troy "Troy Cefaratti" <mnementh@nacs.net> wrote in message (...) (24 years ago, 23-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)

Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Lindsay Frederick Braun

(...) I'm at 800x600x24bit, and it's fine. Strange, that. best LFB (24 years ago, 23-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)

Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Steve Bliss

(...) Are your fonts set to the standard size? Steve (24 years ago, 23-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)

Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Troy Cefaratti

(...) Steve, my friend, you are a genius! ;) My fonts, as a remnant from when i was running at 1600 x 1200, were most assuredly NOT set to standard size! After changing to regular size (and rebooting! Dang Windows!) I can now see the menu bar. As an (...) (24 years ago, 23-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)

Possible math problem —Troy Cefaratti

Dan, Now that I have my display problem fixed, I have been playing with the site a bit. I've added a bunch of parts, and like the interface.[1] I also placed an order from myself to see how it worked. When I placed the oder, and viewed my cart, it (...) (24 years ago, 23-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)

Re: Possible math problem —Dan Jezek

(...) There is no fee structure built in, looks like a problem with decimals. It will be fixed. (...) That's a good point. It will be added. (...) My thumnails are 80x60 and are prefixed with T. Picture sizes are up to you though. (24 years ago, 24-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)

Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Jake McKee

I want to see the site, but this URL doesn't work. How can I see it? Thanks (...) (24 years ago, 25-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)

Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Ran Talbott

(...) Dan, I just took a quick peek, but it looks like you're doing the same fine job you did on your original site. My only complaint is one about policy: I hate the pesky pop-up windows that many of the "free homepage" ISPs use to subsidize their (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jun-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)

Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Mike Stanley

In lugnet.market.shopping, Ran Talbott writes: <snip> (...) I hate pop-ups also, but for some people, going with a completely free web hosting service is their only option. Trying to implement a rule like this would just cause more work for Dan in (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jun-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)

Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Randy Williams

thers plently of free webservers without popups. www.crosswinds.net www.stas.net www.xoom.com (but they have ad banner :( ) (24 years ago, 17-Jun-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)

Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Ran Talbott

(...) I don't mind the banners. It's the animated GIFs with tap-dancing gerbils trying to sell me wolverine bite insurance, and insist on pushing themselves to the top of the window pile, that annoy me. But it's moot for now, anyway: Interland has (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jun-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)

Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Dan Jezek

(...) Thanks. Going back to the original design solves many issues like having people buy from multiple sellers at once - your cart gets cleared automatically when you leave each store. Also, flipping through items and buying is much faster. (...) (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jun-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)