On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 14:58:42 -0500, Christopher James Huff
<cja### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:


>
>No.
>Ok, some more detail: it has been done before, and would be very easy to 
>implement, but it was removed from MegaPOV and not considered for the 
>official version because it would introduce a security risk, a POV 
>script could do literally anything. Also, it would make the script 
>dependant on a single system, generally considered a bad thing for 
>distribution.

Okay dokay, I see your point. I never thought of security issues. Shame, the
world we live in.

>
>It would sometimes be nice though, and perhaps the security problems 
>could be overcome, it could be disabled when security is a problem. A 
>better solution might be to switch things around, do your stuff in a 
>general purpose scripting language like Ruby and call POV from your 
>script.
>
I think, I might be able to do a workaround and just use the post frame command.
Hope so anyway. If not I'll just wait until someone writes a macro or include
file to do what I want. There are so many smart people out there.

Thanks for your explanation. 

Regards
        Stephen

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