Yes, he wrote me privately and pointed out my gaffe.
My suggestion was to try to see if the data files are portable. Are they?
As for the dialog, I'm glad you removed it. How about compromise and output
sent to the status bar? Then you know when something happened, and during
batch imports, it will actually be pretty satisfying to watch the filenames
"scroll" by.
-- joshua
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From: Leonardo Zide <[email protected]>
To: Joshua Delahunty <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 3:42:52 PM
Subject: Re: LeoCAD on the eee pc
He's using the Linux version and the PLM isn't available there yet. I got a
patch this week that adds some of its functionality so you'll be able to import
LDraw pieces but I haven't had time to apply it yet, I'll try to remember to
check it in this weekend and get a new rpm/deb uploaded.
There used to be a message when a piece was imported successfully but I
remember it driving me crazy when I had to import an entire LDraw update so I
disabled it, I shouldn't have checked that in and I'll revert it back.
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Joshua Delahunty <[email protected]> wrote:
> My question for the group: I would like to be able to access the LDRAW
> dat library. As installed, LeoCAD does not allow you. Any suggestions as
> how to do this?
From the LeoCAD FAQ at http://trac.gerf.org/leocad/wiki/FAQ
5. I found a new LDraw piece and I would like to use it in LeoCAD, how
do I add it to the library?
Just place the piece and all its unofficial subpieces and primitives
properly in the LDraw folder (you must have the LDraw library installed
to do this).
Open LeoCAD, go to the Piece Library manager (in the File menu) and then
select Import Piece on the File menu of the PLM. Once you import all
pieces restart LeoCAD and they should be visible in the library.
(addition by me: I've found that the PLM can seem to be unresponsive.
If there are no problems with a part import, it just silently sits
there; when normally you might expect bells and whistles and fireworks
to go off. That only happens if there's some problem, like a missing
sub-part. You also have to restart LeoCAD to see the changes; so a lot
of people (including me, on occasion), have decided that this part of
the program doesn't work, or doesn't do anything. But it does...)
HTH,
-- joshua
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