[0.2.1] LDForge

[Santeri Piippo]

- I'd like a shortcut and/or toolbar icon to enable/disable BFC view
- Open file seems to always start in LDForge folder. Should start in latest accessed folder imho...
- Ctrl+drag or Alt+drag to pan? Middle button drag is not very comfortable (hurts my finger!)
- In flat views, I'd like a reminder of axis directions (eg. labels -x, +x, -z, +z in view corners)
- When I select something in main view, I'd like that the text view jumps to first (or last) line of selection.

Yeah these could be done.

- The configure button at 1st startup in the screen that asks for LDraw library does nothing for me.

It's supposed to trigger that "check for LDraw path" thing, it triggers auto if you search for the directory but it doesn't happen if you type it in... that thing is planned to be just removed.

- It seems that I can't open a file whose name or path contains accentuated characters (sorry, I'm French

hm. Never took accents into account.. I'll bet it's an issue with encodings.

- Cut and paste between two instances of LDForge? Cut / Copy to place LDraw lines as text to paste into external text mode application?

Hrm. Could consider this otherwise but why do you need two instances open? Multiple file support is on the list if it's about that. Exporting selection into text files is certainly doable though.

- Better shading?

The lighting sucks, I know.
The GL renderer's drawing method in general is kinda clunky and just uses display lists, but getting that to already work was quite the effort.. maybe there'll be better lighting/shading if and when I get to know more about more advanced GL techniques.. for now this'll have to do.

- A way to control the split of quad into triangles? what about the inverse joining operation?

Sure, whenever I figure how to interface it. For the inverse operation I guess Rectifier already does the job, though if that's not ideal I could try figure some algorithm..

- I can create vertices - What can I do with them?

I was planning on making them be drawn on the screen and allow them be snapped to while drawing.. at this point I'm not sure what I'll do with them.

- Edit object applied to vertices start from 0,0,0 instead of vertices coordinates

- What's the rationale behind "radial" concept?

The point of them was that you could have any sized ring or cone at hand, kind of a model the part now and worry about primitive relations later. Honestly, I've began to doubt their usefulness recently as well.

- At one time, LDforge stopped to display anything, I had to restart it to be able to use it again. More if I can reproduce this...

Not much I can do about that unless I get a way to reproduce it.

- I was able to use external apps on my Win7 computer, but it doesn't seem to work on my XP box (nothing happens).

Hm.. could it be possible that the paths under XP have accents and Win7 ones don't? I'd see that as the most likely culprit, if not, I'll have to somehow get my hands on an XP system..

- Snapping on existing geometry?

Yeah I'd want to do this too but there's more important things to take care of for now. Also I'm wondering what's the most efficient route to take to keep it from being too slow or consuming too much memory..

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