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3 Jul 2024 01:12:38 EDT (-0400)
  Re: MDL format specification?  
From: Thomas Lake
Date: 5 May 2002 07:03:04
Message: <3cd51168@news.povray.org>
> > I would be more interested in it because it would mean anyone with
> > programming/scripting capabilities could produce/import/export/read and
> > write MDL files ...
> No, I don't think that's neccessarily true :-)  The format is pretty
> much a dump of the C++ data structure, so it's a pain to read if you
> have a different structure.

Oh well in that case your right.

> >, you wouldn't have to lean C++ and MFC programming like you
> > do now to utilize plug-ins.
> Not to nitpick or anything, but the Plugin Interface is actually pure
> C. You don't have to use C++ or MFC.
> I just provide a C++ wrapper and MFC support so that it's a lot less
> tedious and easier to write.

Good to know you don't need to know MFC but just beginning to learn
programming here in Java so the fact that you don't need to know C++ and
only C doesn't help me a lot:-)


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