POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.bugreports : Jump after error : Re: Jump after error Server Time
25 Apr 2024 09:50:21 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Jump after error  
From: Mike Horvath
Date: 22 Feb 2015 23:21:13
Message: <54eaaab9$1@news.povray.org>
On 2/22/2015 9:34 AM, clipka wrote:
> Am 21.02.2015 um 10:54 schrieb Mike Horvath:
>> I am getting the "Possible Parse Error: Degenerate cylinder, base point
>> = apex point." error, but the editor is not jumping me to the location
>> where the error occurred.
>
> This is because it's not a hard parse error, just a type of warning.
> POV-Ray only jumps you to the error location when it aborts parsing.
>
> That said, I do agree that POV-Ray should at least print some hint about
> the location of stuff it warns about; in fact, the Unix version has been
> doing that for ages, and it so happens that I've recently checked in a
> change to make the Windows version do the same at last, it just hasn't
> made it into a (semi-)official binary build of POV-Ray proper yet. It
> /did/ make it into UberPOV beta.10 though.
>


It's not just a warning. Rendering stops completely.


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