Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> 
> In article <36fb884e.0@news.povray.org> , Nieminen Mika <war### [at] cctutfi>
> wrote:
> 
> >   This means that the outputting is buffered, just like outputting to
> > standard output in any programming language.
> 
> It is not, at least not in the POV-Ray core code.  The code used will work
> on most other platforms that output the text directly. However, the GUI
> platforms need to workaround certain limitations of text streams.
Ok, thanks. I guessed that it was this, but i was uncertain.
 
> We are aware of the shortcomings of the current text stream only based
> output when using graphical user interfaces. This will all work much better
> in future versions of POV-Ray.
> 
> >   In programming languages the solution to this is to flush the stdout
> > stream after outputting the text. AFAIK there's no way to flush text
> > streams in povray other than outputting a "\n".
> >
> >   How about a new feature: #flush <stream>, where <stream> can be
> > 'debug', 'render', 'warning', etc...
> >   For example:
> >
> > #warning "This is a warning"
> > #flush warning
> 
>      Thorsten

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