LDCad 1.7 Alpha 1 (win+linux)

[Roland Melkert]

One question about scripting:

I got an idea lua scripts might help me with copying groups with their pivot point kept. And while looking around for LDCAD scripting examples, I found methods not mentioned on your Scripting API web page. Probably because lua in LDCAD evolved since the documentation was written. But what surprised me was that I could not get the list of methods by simple dump function. Are ldc objects somehow special? Or is the dump function too basic?
(I'm sorry I'm lua greenhorn, I just try to learn as I use it.)

That script only lists the 'static' functions, ldc.vector() etc returns lua 'user data' which has its own set of functions.

That said the current lua interface is 99% readonly oriented, so you can't copy groups as you currently can't create groups using pure script.

The documentation is ancient (~version 1.4), I've been working on updating it but its boring and therefor slowly progressing

I've uploaded the part I already done, as it might be somewhat helpful.
http://www.melkert.net/LDCad/docs/scriptAPI2

Don't mind the 150 or so "todo's"

Please note there are some Alpha 2 things (input/control/etc) in there not available in 1.6/alpha1