POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : PoVRay-API : Re: PoVRay-API Server Time
10 Aug 2024 15:24:14 EDT (-0400)
  Re: PoVRay-API  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 26 Nov 1999 10:35:07
Message: <383ea8ab@news.povray.org>
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


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