yarp opened this issue on Jan 13, 2005 ยท 11 posts
lmckenzie posted Thu, 13 January 2005 at 11:06 AM
To clarify, I was wondering if "open with" by itself (nothing to do with P3dO) would work. It doesn't for Poser 4. Trying to open a .cr2 that way gives an error that it can't load the Poser2Lo/Default Guy, which isn't even my default (no figure), so it definitely sends Poser back to an infantile state. That's pretty much what I expected, since you can't load a raw .cr2 from the interface. Perhaps Poser 5 is different. Yes, deletion is a problem. I'd be uncomfortable even issuing a warning first, so I think I'd probably implement the uninstall caching strategy and maybe prompt after a period (15-30) days to actually delete the files. Daz has started including uninstallers for their products so that helps. You might have a config file with the most common Daz/CL geometry folders at least and exclude them from deletion. It's a tradeoff between power/convenience and potential danger. Of course, the zip installer is the ideal answer for new installations. Someone has said that they were working on a standalone utility like that. Personally, I hate parsing those damned Mac style relative paths. I wrote a utility to list texture/geometry files and it was a pain. I started thinking of a better way to do it but haven't played with it yet.
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