>> 4. after running povray it shoud be nice to have a non modal windows 
>> displaying the resulted image. Right now I use am image viewer and 
>> refresh the image every povray run, but again, it is a little bit 
>> annoying. Kpovmodeler has a window like this which displays the image 
>> being rendered while it is rendered, with a progress bar and a speed 
>> indication (in kpixels/sec). I know kpovmodeler is a kde program, but 
>> maybe Qt can do that also.
> 
> 
> ==> Of course, this can be done using QT. Personnaly, I use the povray 
> output with the "Pause when done" option. Perhaps a viewer could be added.

I also like the image window of the windows version and I tried to patch 
your editor to do the same. I ran into problems because the image 
POV-Ray produces is only a valid image file when the render has finished 
(which is quite understandable). There are image-viewers out there which 
can display "broken" (=unfinished) PNG-images (which was the only type I 
tested it with), but unfortunately I could not get Qt to display such 
files. If anyone finds a solution for this problem, I'd be happy to do 
the rest :)
If this would mean to much work another option would be to display only 
the finished image. This is however not really a solution, IMHO, but a 
bad workaround.

Florian

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