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23 Apr 2024 15:03:42 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Standalone editor & parser?  
From: Alain
Date: 23 Oct 2017 16:15:15
Message: <59ee4dd3@news.povray.org>
Le 17-10-23 à 13:03, Bald Eagle a écrit :
> clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> 
>> Do you want the Windows GUI and parser without the render engine? What
>> good would that be?
> 
> I'd be able to write SDL on any computer I was sitting at, and check for proper
> syntax and other errors without having to install POV-Ray on every box I used.
> 
> Color coded contextual highlighting is nice (I will check out VIM), but the
> parser is really the thing that tells me if something's going to even GET TO the
> render phase without choking on a missing include file, a missing ) or }, an
> undeclared variable, etc.
> 
> It was just an idea for something useful, if it was simple enough to do.
> 
> A dream in a longer, narrower pipe would be to have an online editor / parser
> that could be used in a browser...
> 
> 

You may want to take the Unix/Linux source files, remove/comment out the 
renderer part and compile.


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