William, Thanks for the feedback and information. It's a continual effort to keep the documentation up-to-date, to say the least. Feedback such as yours definitely helps. That said, a couple follow-up questions if you can recall:
> (1) the folder structure is not what is documented, so the system > has to be pointed to the appropriate folders to find projects and > applications where they expect; Which documentation? (It's an honest question, we have documentation in a variety of formats and locations.) > (2) at startup the nature of the problem is such that the system > returns another line - as if you typed in [ENTER] - *nothing* > happens. Blaming BRL-CAD for this isn't appropriate since I don't > think the system has a chance to startup at that point. For the > newbie this is maddening since they don't know if they installed it > right, or even if the application works at all! In this age of > self-installing software, this can be a real show stopper. > Fortunately, I worked back in the day of command lines and tinkered > away until I figured out what happened. What command line are your referring to here as returning another line? The system command line or MGED's command line? When you run a script within MGED, whether it displays any output will depend entirely on the commands in that script. There have been a few changes to MGED's scripting interface (particularly on Windows) including bug fixes and enhancements, so our upcoming release should be an improvement in usability. Keep an eye out for the announcement of updated binaries. > I hope this is helpful, you have a damned good product, and you > cannot beat the price! Its a real honest to god engineering tool, > not just a visualizer - so, I look forward to working with it again > when I get a chance. Likewise! Apologies on the delays responding as our ability to respond to support requests ebbs and flows depending on our on-going development activities. Thanks again for the feedback and your patience. Cheers! Sean > Quoting Christopher Sean Morrison <[email protected]>: > >> What was the problem? It's helpful to know the cause, even if it was >> something as simple as a typo, so that we can improve our >> documentation. >> >> Cheers! >> Sean >> >> On Mar 22, 2010, at 10:45 AM, [email protected] wrote: >> >>> I got it to work >>> >>> Thanks >>> ------Original Message------ >>> From: Christopher Sean Morrison >>> To: User support, suggestions, questions, and comments welcome >>> ReplyTo: User support, suggestions, questions,and comments welcome >>> Subject: Re: [brlcad-users] Load mged script from command line >>> Sent: Mar 22, 2010 9:56 AM >>> >>> >>> On Mar 22, 2010, at 9:25 AM, Harris, Rob B NSWCDL G 24 wrote: >>> >>>> version 7.14.8 for windows. >>>> I am trying to create a new .g file and load a script from the >>>> command line. He script file contains simple geometry creation >>>> commands. In older versions of BRL-CAD for windows the dos command >>>> was: mged model.g < script.txt >>>> Is there a similar command sequence for 7.14.8? >>> >>> Depending on the geometry creation commands, that same command >>> sequence should still work. Unless a bug was introduced, any >>> differences should be limited to changes to the commands themselves >>> (presuming you upgraded from something predating the 7.14 line). If >>> you're not seeing this, please do file a bug report with more >>> details. >>> >>> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/? >>> func=add&group_id=105292&atid=640802 >>> >>> Cheers! >>> Sean ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ BRL-CAD Users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-users
