Radiosity scenes are a pain to finish if you have to roll back 10 lines
or so.  +C isn't always a viable option.

Maybe the prompt could be implemented, but with a user-defined time
limit before it activated.  So if you set it at 5 minutes, all your
"Render -- Crap that's wrong  -- Stop" renders wouldn't ask, but if
you'd had a real render going, then you'd get prompted before killing it
by mistake.



"Tim Nikias" <tim### [at] gmxde> wrote in message
news:3d709bb0@news.povray.org...
> You can always continue the trace with +C, so what's
> the big deal?
>
> Still, might be a useful option for long traces. But when
> I'm modelling scenes and experimenting with lighting, I
> hit run and stop several times, and clicking on a "yeah, stop
> the trace" everytime could get annoying.
>
> Just my 2 cents worth.
>
> Tim
>
> --
> Tim Nikias
> Homepage: http://www.digitaltwilight.de/no_lights/index.html
> Email: Tim### [at] gmxde
>
> > A confirmation prompt when you stop the render might be a good idea.
On
> more
> > than one occasion, during an exceptionally long render I've
accidentally
> > clicked stop instead of pause, something like that is usually
followed by
> > the use of many colourful 4 letter adjectives :-P I know this could
get
> > annoying for short test renders, but an option to turn off
confirmation
> > should be pretty easy to add (off by default perhaps). I'm just
thinking
> for
> > convenience sake and fewer headaches.
> >
> > Just a thought
> >
>
>
>

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