Christopher James Huff wrote:
> 
> Hmm? What changes were necessary? Is POV-Ray not named "povray" on your
> system?
> I'll eventually have the engine name be a variable, it was mainly
> hard-coded because there are no string manipulation functions yet. The
> same goes for the source file name.

It's 'pvengine.exe' but it's usually not in search path and the windows
version is not very suited for automatic starting anyway so most people
will either not use the render function or have a command line version.

> 
> More dangerous is the system() function...I'll eventually add security
> features to limit file I/O and turn that function off, though they will
> probably be platform-specific extensions to the core code. I'm focusing
> on getting the thing fully operational first...

I mostly meant 'system()', i think it would be good if you could have a
confirmation before executing a program.

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