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  Re: POV-Ray 3.7 Beta 17 and GUI-Extension API  
From: Chris Cason
Date: 7 Apr 2007 05:47:24
Message: <461768ac$1@news.povray.org>
Hugo wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I did some experiments with the latest POV-Ray 3.7 version available for 
> MS-Windows platform (Beta 17) and a minimal GUI-Extension project that I 
> wrote for testing purposes. I believe that something is broken in the 
> GUI-Extension API.
> 
> POV-Ray 3.7 loads the GUI-Extension library normally but I can't get any 
> information about the rendered pixels from POV-Ray, i.e. the 
> GUI-Extension functions DisplayPlot(), DisplayPlotRect(), WinPrePixel(), 
> WinPostPixel() and WinAssignPixel() are never called (I *do* initialize 
> correctly the PointerBlock structure - everything works fine with 
> POV-Ray 3.6)
> 
> It is also not possible to stop the render via the GUI-Extension API: 
> POV-Ray receives the request and prints 'rendering stopped by GUI 
> extension' in the message pane but the render does not stop (this is not 
> a new problem, it happens with POV-Ray 3.6 too).

Hugo,

Are you willing to work on sorting out GUIEXT issues? If so I will provide
you with access to the beta 3.7 source code.

-- Chris


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