LDView 4.2 Beta 1 Released

[Travis Cobbs]

Any plans to port LDView to android?

No. I have no Android devices, and don't really plan to have any. Also, a port would be fairly difficult, since talking to native C++ code (which LDView is) from Java isn't very nice. Until two other LDraw viewers showed up for iOS, I had considered an iOS port, but iOS programs can easily talk to native C++ code.

I find this for java, but seems beta and dificult to compile for non-java programmers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHahOgDz7TQ

http://code.google.com/p/foo-org-ve/

If someone wants to make something out of that for Android, that's fine, but it wouldn't be LDView, since it's not related. And I won't be doing it; I used Java in my job for a while, and never grew to like it, so I'm not likely to do it for fun.

By the way, version 4.2b1 runs ok on Ubuntu 12.04, ¡good job!

Thanks. I'm glad it works there.