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| | | I have added my own elements to my registry, such as some of the newer buildings and some of my own creations - but it is probably only applicable to me. It is easy to add new elements - especially if they are only base plates. It is best to copy an (...) (23 years ago, 9-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | Re: Track Designer Registry —Joseph O'Donnell
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| | | | (...) I, too, have added some parts to the registry. It added greatly to the enjoyment of using Track Designer. One thought to posting new creations would be to upload to a website a graphic of the piece and a list showing the values that plug into (...) (23 years ago, 11-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | Re: Track Designer Registry —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | (...) That's the rub. Long ago, I corresponded with Matt Bates about what it would take to make registry elements exportable and importable (so that you could transfer elements from one library/registry to another) and even he was not quite sure how (...) (23 years ago, 11-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | Re: Track Designer Registry —Martin Scragg
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| | | | | | In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes: [Snip] (...) So would he be willing to pass the source on to someone else to update it (I'd be willing to have a look at it)? I am sure the code he has written, is no where near as bad as some of the stuff I (...) (23 years ago, 11-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Track Designer Registry —Rick Clark
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| | | | | | (...) Excellent! Two years ago Matt said: > It's written in Microsoft Visual C++ with MFC 4.0. > > I would be more than happy for anyone to volunteer to take over the future > development of Track Designer. I am sure there are many features that (...) (23 years ago, 11-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Track Designer Registry —Kevin Wilson
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| | | | | | | Rick Clark wrote in message <3C8C2E4E.6090602@no...ol.com>... (...) that they were planning to do some updating of the program. This hasn't happened yet, but who knows, it may be in progress behind the scenes. It would be good to contact James and (...) (23 years ago, 11-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Track Designer Registry —James Trobaugh
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| | | | | | | | The NGLTC does now host the Train Depot, but we have nothing to do with the code upgrade to Track Designer, we just agreed to host the application. I know when we took over the hosting of the site that there was some talk of other taking over the (...) (23 years ago, 11-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Track Designer Registry —Martin Scragg
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| | | | | | | | (...) Did you get a response? I sent off an email to him and will see what happens. Martin (23 years ago, 11-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Track Designer Registry —James Trobaugh
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| | | | | | | | No I haven't heard from him. The only email address I have for him is train_depot@yahoo.com jt (...) (23 years ago, 11-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Track Designer Registry —Matthew Bates
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| | | | | | | | (...) Sorry, haven't been very active recently. We just had baby number 3 arrive. My first little girl! I do have the source code somewhere, I sent it to someone ages ago, I forget who it was and I never heard from them again. Don't know if it was (...) (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Track Designer Registry —Martin Scragg
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| | | | | | | | | (...) Congratulations, now you will have even less spare time on your hands :-) (...) Great news. (...) Well, hopefully this time, we can get something happening. Martin (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Track Designer Registry —James Trobaugh
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| | | | | | | | | (...) Congrats on the new addition! (...) Sounds good, I haven't heard anything from the people you gave it to so I too assume that they changed their minds on the upgrades. I would like to have a copy to archive and maybe if I get some "spare" time (...) (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Track Designer Registry —Don Heyse
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) According to this thread, it looks like the source may have gone to Leonardo. (URL) think he still monitors the CAD groups so he might see this. I'm sure this has probably been discussed to death, but why not create a sourceforge account and (...) (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Track Designer Registry —Leonardo Zide
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| | | | | | | | | | I got the source, started making changes to be able to run it under linux but when I graduated and started working my free time was reduced drastically and I couldn't continue working on it. :( Leonardo (...) (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Track Designer Registry —Matthew Bates
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| | | | | | | | | | | (...) Do you still have the zip file I sent you? That would save me having to redo what I did for you already. And my memory would have been better back then! Matt (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Track Designer Registry —Martin Scragg
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| | | | | | | | | | | | It has been a few weeks now since the subject of track designer updates was brought up, has anything come out of it yet? Has anybody heard anything new from Matt about releasing the source code to individuals, sourceforge or whatever? Martin (23 years ago, 7-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Track Designer Registry —Don Heyse
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) Huh? I could swear that just a few weeks ago you recommended waiting around patiently for something to happen. (URL) decided to take your advice. Perhaps everyone else did too. ;) Don (23 years ago, 7-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Track Designer Registry —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) Well, he was waiting.. but now perhaps he's wondering whether the necessary first step is going to happen or not? That step is Matt (or whoever?) finding the code, right, not setting up the SourceForge project. But you still could do that (...) (23 years ago, 7-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Track Designer Registry —Martin Scragg
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) Matt would need a least a week to sort things out, so I wasn't worried at that stage. (...) That is correct, I thought that Matt may have said that he had found it by now, and given it to someone. I didn't expect him to set up a sourceforge (...) (23 years ago, 7-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Track Designer Registry —Don Heyse
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) Yes, but in fact the project had already languished for a year, and both Leonardo and Matt admitted being too busy to work on it. New babies, dot com hours, and real life in general can be very distracting. It seemed to me that an opportunity (...) (23 years ago, 8-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Track Designer Registry —Leonardo Zide
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) Wish I had dot com hours, they have to be better than video game company hours. :) (...) Good news, last night I was able to find the source package at home but my ISP was not very helpful and I couldn't upload it anywhere. I'll try again (...) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Track Designer Registry —Leonardo Zide
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Tried to create a sourceforge project last night but got stuck on the license part. Does Matt still reads this or does anyone have his current email address ? I'd like to hear from him what kind of license he wants to use. Leonardo (...) (23 years ago, 12-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Track Designer Registry —Don Heyse
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) Good idea to check on the license. I forget, what are the choices at the SourceForge? In this post from a month ago he was still listed as "Matthew Bates" <train_depot@yahoo.com> (URL)In lugnet.trains, Leonardo Zide writes: (...) (23 years ago, 12-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Track Designer Registry —Leonardo Zide
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) Basically all open source licenses. If no license is acceptable then I can talk to the person who hosts my website/cvs server/mailing lists and ask him to host TD there too. Leonardo (23 years ago, 12-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Track Designer Registry —Don Heyse
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) It's been a while now, so I thought I'd check before I completely forget about this... Any progress on the license/hosting issue? Don (23 years ago, 6-May-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Track Designer Registry —Martin Scragg
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) If you don't have the time etc. to set it up at sourceforge, just email it to me and I will set it up. (...) A very long quite while. I was thiking the same thing myself on the weekend. (...) Like I said, just email it to me, and I will put it (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Track Designer Registry —William R. Ward
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) Run under linux? music to my ears... Rather than move to .NET would you (Matt) consider moving it to a more cross-platform system, such as Java? --Bill. (23 years ago, 13-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Track Designer Registry —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) While I like Java more than most, that would be a complete rewrite, ne? And I have to agree with Kevin D. (and Joel, his reference, whom I've enjoyed reading for years now) that a complete rewrite is hardly ever a good idea. But then I'm an (...) (23 years ago, 13-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Track Designer Registry —Matthew Bates
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| | | | | | | | | | At this point I really don't mind what happens to Track Designer, I have zero time to spend on it. I'm basically going to open it up to the community and you guys can do whatever you want with the source, modify it, rewrite it, port it or put the (...) (23 years ago, 13-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Track Designer Registry —Don Heyse
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) Uh Oh! This thread got awfully quiet all of a sudden. I take it that means nobody wants to volunteer to create the SourceForge project... If so, I'll reluctantly volunteer to do it because I'd like to tinker with the source myself someday. I (...) (23 years ago, 14-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Track Designer Registry —Leonardo Zide
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| | | | | | | | | | | (...) If I still have the source I can make the SF project and upload it (provided that I get permission). My first goal was to move away from GDI and use OpenGL to draw the track layout to make it possible to port to other platforms (I managed to (...) (23 years ago, 14-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Track Designer Registry —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) Weelll... DO you have the source, in case Matt can't find it? (don't laugh, I lost some source to a project I worked years on... it's not so much LOST as it is on one of several hundred floppies but not sure WHICH one)... (23 years ago, 8-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Track Designer Registry —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) Heh. If it's on floppy, it might very well be lost by now... Steve (23 years ago, 8-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Track Designer Registry —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) Apparently you've seen my basement! (23 years ago, 8-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Track Designer Registry —Ross Crawford
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) You mean your basement is actually visible now??????? Heck, I thought your house was just built on LEGO boxes 8?) ROSCO (23 years ago, 8-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad, lugnet.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Track Designer Registry —Martin Scragg
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) I don't think it is anything to worry about. We (well I am anyway) waiting for Matt and/or Leonardo to sort out the source code, then as a group we should decide what to do with it. Sourceforge sounds like a good idea, we just need to work out (...) (23 years ago, 14-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Track Designer Registry —Rob Hendrix
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| | | | | | | | (...) OK, digging up an old thread here... WE WANT TD SOURCE CODE!!!!!!!! Matt? Leonardo? Anyone? I know this is an old thread (maybe dead) but I have to ask for the ten thousanth time for fellow trainheads (and myself). May we (...) (21 years ago, 16-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Track Designer Registry —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | | (...) I agree it would be nice, but with the advent of TrackDraw (coming soon we all hope, the demo that Cary gave at BF was amazing) it's not as important any more, except as a way to determine what the format of .tdl files are so that an importer (...) (21 years ago, 16-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Track Designer Registry —Jonathan Wilson
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| | | | | | | | | (...) Actually, depending on how well its written, it might be possible to port it to linux or something. I know that there is some stuff for doing .NET on linux but: 1.its not finished and doesnt do everything microsoft version does 2.its likely (...) (21 years ago, 17-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Track Designer Registry —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) I'm not sure which you are referring to, Track Designer or Track Draw... As for Track Designer, even with the source, I expect it would be a very hard port to any non Windows platform. I believe it was written in Visual Basic or Visual C++ (I (...) (21 years ago, 17-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Track Designer Registry —Jonathan Wilson
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) Track Designer is written in Visual C++ and probobly makes heavy use of windows GDI and user calls to make it work. However, there are Open Source libraries available that essentially provide these calls and map them to similar calls on a (...) (21 years ago, 17-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Track Designer Registry —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | | | | | (...) I was unaware that was the point you were making. But if it is, (I was confused, your post read like a multiplatform rant rather than a request to get the source available) why yes, I agree. It's been a year since the community last tried to (...) (21 years ago, 17-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Track Designer Registry —Cary Clark
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| | | | | | | | | | In lugnet.trains, Jonathan Wilson wrote: ... (...) ... IMO, that's a pretty amusing statement. Without you having seen either the source to Track Designer or TrackDraw, I think it is a reach to say which would be easier to port to Linux. TrackDraw (...) (21 years ago, 17-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Track Designer Registry —Mike Walsh
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| | | | | | | | "Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:HJpp7t.166s@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) all (...) more, (...) Larry is right, while usefule TD's time has come and I expect Cary's TrackDraw application will be far (...) (21 years ago, 17-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Track Designer Registry —Steve Barile
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| | | | | | No disrespect to Matt, but how about a rewrite. Couple thoughts: TD3D (Track Designer 3D). This was very loosely suggested at the LDraw round table at BricksWest (maybe by Jake ???). I'm not at all suggesting track design in MLCAD, but rather a (...) (23 years ago, 11-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Track Designer Registry —Martin Scragg
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| | | | | | | (...) I wouldn't contemplate a rewrite at this stage, without seeing the original code. It may be possible to do what you ask and more, with the code that has already been written. A lot of the fundamental work has been done by Matt, that would take (...) (23 years ago, 11-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Track Designer Registry —James Trobaugh
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| | | | | | I too had though about a complete re-write, but it's so hard to get motivated to take on the project when you see how much stuff is packed into the existing TD. First I make a list of what I'd like to have in such an application, then I list what (...) (23 years ago, 11-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Track Designer Registry —Kevin Dixon
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| | | | | | (...) Personally, I think a rewrite would be a bad idea, although some reorganizing of the code might be good. (keep in mind I haven't seen the code) Typically what happens in largish software projects is they go along for a few years, adding (...) (23 years ago, 13-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Track Designer Registry —David Laswell
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| | | | (...) I was trying to find a comprehensive list of TrackDraw features (one that didn't require slogging through 300+ posts in a Yahoo group), and I ran across this post. In all this time, has noone else figured out that you can copy/paste elements (...) (21 years ago, 18-May-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | Re: Track Designer Registry —Cary Clark
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| | | | In lugnet.trains, David Laswell wrote: ... (...) TrackDraw in its current state addresses all of the features you mentioned in a prior post: more than 4 connection points, 'true' rendering (baseplates exactly stitch), etc. I don't doubt though that (...) (21 years ago, 18-May-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | Re: Track Designer Registry —Mike Walsh
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| | | | "Cary Clark" <cclark2@nScP.rArM.com> wrote in message news:HxwtDp.uw0@lugnet.com... (...) that (...) in a (...) exactly (...) better (...) program, then (...) in it's current Alpha state is a better track layout tool than TrackDesigner is. But that (...) (21 years ago, 19-May-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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