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Re: Track Designer Registry
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad
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Mon, 11 Mar 2002 04:10:54 GMT
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jrclark@nospam.NOSPAMaol.com
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Martin Scragg wrote:
> In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> [Snip]
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> > As beloved as TD is by many, Matt said he wrote it more as a learning
> > project than anything else, originally, and wasn't too keen on some of the
> > internals as he felt he'd progressed beyond some of it.
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>
> 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 have had to work with, that
> goes into products that get sold!
>
> Martin
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
people
> would want to see added.
> > Anyone who takes it over needs to be proficient in both C and Windows
> programming. MFC experience would also help greatly. I wouldn't say
you need
> much experience in C++ but it wouldn't hurt (This was my first C++
and first
> MFC program!)
> > If more than one person wants to volunteer then we'll have to work
something
> out.
> > I'll be more than happy to answer questions about it.
> > Matt
So contact Matt and have at it! You will be well-regarded by all of us
in the Lego Train community just for trying, and much more so for
succeeding.
There were a few other people interested in helping out, but that was
two years ago. They may be too busy now (on the other hand, they may
have more time).
Here's the thread:
http://news.lugnet.com/trains/?n=7254
My wish feature is a layer to allow you to draw scale tabletops. Just
rectangles would be a huge improvement.
Rick Clark
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Track Designer Registry
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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)
| | | Re: Track Designer Registry
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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
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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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