POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : PoVRay-API : Re: PoVRay-API Server Time
10 Aug 2024 15:17:36 EDT (-0400)
  Re: PoVRay-API  
From: Martin T  Thoma
Date: 26 Nov 1999 10:46:44
Message: <383EAB16.7A5B@radiok2r.de>
Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> 
> In article <383### [at] radiok2rde> , "Martin T. Thoma"
> <mar### [at] radiok2rde> wrote:
> 
> > PoVRay-API
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > In the license-agreement, there is the following part:
> > "To allow POV-Ray to communicate with outside programs, the official
> > versions of POV-Ray include several internal communication "hooks"
> > for it to call other tasks, often called an Application Programming
> > Interface, or API. For example: the generic part of POV-Ray provides
> > operating system shell-out API commands. The Windows version has a
> > GUI-extension API and the ability to replace the text editor.
> > Modification to these APIs or other officially supported
> > communication mechanisms to increase functionality beyond that of
> > the official version IS EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED."
> >
> > How can I get more information about this API ? Explictly how to use it
> > correctly, because I don't want to break the agreement.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Martin
> 
> Get the Windows source code archive. It contains some documentation on the
> Windows API.
> 
>      Thorsten

.. it does ?? :-)) Ok, I only looked ar it for a very short time...
Thanx ! Is this the API they are speaking in the license-agreement ??

Martin


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