This is BETA software and not final.... bit too early to go judging it!  As
for the new GUI I rather like it ;-)  Would be nice to disable that graphic
animation in top right though !!

Bryan
tim jordan <tim### [at] paradisenetnznospam> wrote in message
359### [at] paradisenetnznospam...
>Mikael Gustafsson wrote:
>>
>> I don't know if the POV-admin is accepting "bug reports" in this group
but
>> here goes. I just downloaded and tried out POV 3.1b4 win and besides
being
>> somewhat slower than 3.02 (will probably be optimized at a later stage?)
>> it's great. I especially love the redesigned GUI but it still needs some
>> fine-tuning, In Windows 98 the titlebar in the editor windows is not
>> gradient as it should be. The toolbars follow the win98 "regulations" I
>> guess but if would be nice to have the option to turn of the texts from
the
>> main toolbar (New, Open, ...). Besides these I can't think of any
>> improvments at the moments so keep up the good work. POV-Ray is the best
>> software I have and it keeps getting better all the time.
>>
>> PS. Adding the slope depentent textures that are being discussed in these
>> groups would be a major improvment.
>>
>> Mikael Gustafsson
>> mik### [at] nettifi
>
>Personally, I really dislike the new GUI look.  It's far too much like
>Internet Explorer.  I really don't like the animated scene in the top
>right, again, it's too much like browsers.  I couldn't find a way to
>disable this other than disabling the toolbar entirely.  Disabling the
>toolbar (by un-checking 'Use Toolbar' in the 'Appearance' menu) works
>immediately but if you exit and re-start POV the toolbar returns even
>though 'Use Toolbar' is still un-checked!  I also don't like the new
>icons and the background pattern behind them. It's just too busy and
>distracting.
>
>Some of the test scenes didn't work for me eg:
>
>foglyr2.pov  --- all I got was a large opaque magenta block instead of
>fog over the checkered floor.
>
>hollow1.pov --- Couldn't detect any difference between the two spheres
>or their shadows.
>
>media3.pov --- Are we supposed to see light beams here?
>
>galaxy.pov --- Where are the density files?
>
>As for speed differences, I haven't run skyvase yet but fish13 runs a
>full 1 minute and 8 secs slower than POV 3.02.
>The demo runs 5 secs slower than POV 3.02
>
>To end on a more positive note:
>
>I do like the new macro facility - makes for much leaner and more
>understandable code.
>
>tim

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