POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Feature request for pov3.1 : Re: Feature request for pov3.1 Server Time
13 Aug 2024 21:28:19 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Feature request for pov3.1  
From: Bob Jamison
Date: 30 Jun 1998 14:00:49
Message: <35991A27.115B71CE@lincom-asg.com>
Nieminen Mika wrote:

>   Can I request a very little and easy-to-code feature for the DOS version
> of the next povray version?
>   It should be nice that it (the DOS version) looked how many rows are
> available when printing text. I usually use a 50-rows mode (instead of
> the usual 25-rows) in DOS, but povray only uses the first 25 rows. It should
> be nice if it would use all the 50 rows (there would be more info to read
> since you can't scroll the text while povray is raytracing).
>   The povhelp program looks for the number of rows and that's great (povhelp
> is one of the best programs I know (after povray itself, of course :) ).
>
> --
>                                                               - Warp. -

For my 2-cents worth, I think a simple patch to allow URL's to be used as
file names & resources would be a real coup.  This would make a distributed
POV-Ray extremely simple, and would make a truly impressive system.

(Not that I don't love POV already)


Bob


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