File with all program that are LDraw relevant

[Michael Heidemann]

Hi,
I often faced the problem to get the locations of other LDraw related applications like LDView, MLCad or LDDP, just to name the most popular in the past.

It would be great if we could have one file that stores all these informations.

This information file, lets call it maybe "LDrawTools.xml" should be stored in the LDraw base folder. So if I got the information from the enviroment variable %LDRAWDIR% I also know where all the other apps are located by reading just this single file.

Any new application should add its own entry in this file once it is started the first time.

What do you think?

Suggestion for the structure of the "LDrawTools.xml":

Code:

<LDrawApps>
    <Apps>
        <App>
            <Name>
                MLCad
            </Name>
            <Location>
                c:\Programm\MLCAD\mlcad.exe
            </Location>
        </App>
        <App>
            <Name>
                LDDP
            </Name>
            <Location>
                c:\Programm\LDDP\LDDP.exe
            </Location>
        </App>
        <App>
            <Name>
                LDView
            </Name>
            <Location>
                c:\Programm\LDView\LDview.exe
            </Location>
        </App>    
    </App>
</LDrawApps>