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[LDPE] 1.8.82 Released (un-inline / subfile link shortcut / zip-export) - Nils Schmidt - 2024-07-13
Hey,
this new version improves the changes from the previous release and adds new helpful features, too.
It is now possible to "un-inline" a linked inlined subfile (with Ctrl-click on the "Inline selection (Linked)" button).
And there are new shortcuts. You can customise the key shortcut to activate links in the text editor (it was Ctrl/Cmd before, now it is Ctrl/Cmd+Shift).
![[Image: imgDuke2.png]](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-fi18ywwsEUo/VOOuvkpsdzI/AAAAAAAAASw/Ax0RRFkleKA/s64-no/imgDuke2.png)
As always, you can download LDPE from this page:
http://nilsschmidt1337.github.io/ldparteditor/
Changelog:
(4 new features and 2 bug fixes)
With this release you will be able to...
- ..."un-inline" linked subfiles in the main part (with ctrl+click on the "Inline selection (Linked)" button).
- ...customise a key shortcut to activate links in the text editor (it was Ctrl/Cmd before, now it is Ctrl/Cmd+Shift).
- ...use key shortcuts for merge triangles to quads / split quads to triangles (shift+q and shift+t).
- ...use "Save As..." to export a file with its references into a single zip file.
The following critical issues are fixed:
- "Empty Subfiles" was not properly checked in the context menu of the 3D view.
- The path "parts/textures" was not used as a search path for PNG textures.
The program was tested intensively with "real world" files.
However, something can go wrong in about 140.000 lines of code.
Installation on Windows:
- Download and extract LDPartEditor_win32_x64.zip
- Run LDPartEditor-1.8.82.msi
- Start LDPartEditor from the start menu
- Download and extract LDPartEditor_linux_x64.zip
- Install ldparteditor_1.8.82-1_amd64.deb
- Start LDPartEditor from the menu or via launcher
- Download and extract LDPartEditor_mac_x64.zip
- Mount LDPartEditor-1.8.82.dmg
- Drag LDPartEditor.app to the Applications folder
- Copy ldparteditor.sh to your home folder
4a. Open a Terminal.app and run ./ldparteditor.sh
4b. Or open a Terminal.app and run /Applications/LDPartEditor.app/Contents/MacOS/LDPartEditor
I listen carefully to your requests and possible complaints. Please leave me a message, with your thoughts and wishes to further improve the software.
LDPE is a 3D CAD application: The overall system requirements are higher. While I recommend to use a powerful 64-bit multicore system, it could be possible, to run LDPE on older machines as well.
System Requirements:
Minimum System Requirements:
- OpenGL 2.1 compatible Graphics Card
- Operating System (64-bit): Windows [7 or newer], Linux [e.g. Ubuntu Linux >=14.4], Mac OS X [>=10.6]
- CPU: Multicore-Processor e.g. Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon II (>2.0Ghz)
- RAM: 4GB
- Video-Memory: 1 GB
- Free Disk Space: 150 MB
- Operating System (64bit): Windows 7,8,10,11, Linux [e.g. Ubuntu Linux >=14.4], Mac OS X [>=10.6]
- OpenGL 3.3 compatible Graphics Card
- CPU: Multicore-Processor with 4 cores (or more)
- RAM: >4 GB
- Video-Memory: >1 GB
- Free Disk Space: 500 MB
- For a faster start, LDPartEditor and the LDraw™ library should be installed on an SSD.
RE: [LDPE] 1.8.82 Released (un-inline / subfile link shortcut / zip-export) - Magnus Forsberg - 2024-07-15
Everytime I run Edger2 I end up in a state where I have to save the file, before any other editing is possible.
Technical details of the Edger2 sync problem (its complicated) - Nils Schmidt - 2024-07-15
(2024-07-15, 11:14)Magnus Forsberg Wrote: Everytime I run Edger2 I end up in a state where I have to save the file, before any other editing is possible.
Thanks, Magnus.
Willy reported the same problem a while ago. It was unclear why, until today. It will be fixed with the next version.
The root cause was, that the UI thread did not set a boolean variable to true sometimes on some machines.
In the code you will find a function syncWithTextEditors.
What is does in simple words: It tells
Quote:"Hey, here is an update for the text editor to display. I locked the editor for changes until the update shows up."
then another process will accept the order:
Quote:"Ok. I will wait for 2.2 seconds and update the text editor, unless there is another update in the queue. Then I return that the text editor was updated and this will unlock the text editor (updated = true)."
On some machines, the response "updated = true" did not reach its destination.
This led to a state where the text editor content was updated, but it was not flagged as updated.
Then the text editor remained read only, unless you did a save for example.
The fix was implemented by adding a volatile keyword on the updated boolean variable.
Using volatile makes sure that changes on this variable are visible to every thread.
Code:
// The following line is wrong
// private boolean updated = true;
// This is correct, using volatile to make sure that changes are visible to every thread.
private volatile boolean updated = true;
public final void syncWithTextEditors(...) {
// Indicate that the text editor needs an update and should not be changed by user input
setUpdated(false);
lock.lock();
try {
Thread.ofVirtual().start(() -> {
* some higher magic in another thread *
Display.getDefault().asyncExec(() -> {
try {
* update the text editor in the UI thread *
} finally {
// The text editor was updated and is unlocked.
// On some machines, this code did not update the value, because "volatile" was missing on the "updated" variable.
setUpdated(true);
}
});
});
} finally {
lock.unlock();
}
}RE: [LDPE] 1.8.82 Released (un-inline / subfile link shortcut / zip-export) - N. W. Perry - 2024-07-15
(2024-07-13, 18:13)Nils Schmidt Wrote:
- ...use key shortcuts for merge triangles to quads / split quads to triangles (shift+q and shift+t).
Wow, so quick! Thanks for this update.
