POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.newusers : Texture Library plugin : Re: Texture Library plugin Server Time
30 Jul 2024 22:25:18 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Texture Library plugin  
From: Tim Riley
Date: 8 Aug 2003 12:28:36
Message: <3f33cfb4$1@news.povray.org>
ABX wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 13:16:35 -0700, Patrick Elliott <sha### [at] hotmailcom>
> wrote:
> 
>>In article <7ni4jvgp2qkstm76cg77a7u5v9tc5kn1d6@4ax.com>, abx### [at] abxartpl 
>>says...
>>
>>>I don't see what is advantage of that plugin over customizable Insert
>>>Menu with prerendered images ?
>>
>>You mean besides the fact that there is an internal limit on the number 
>>of items in this menu
> 
> 
> What limit? I just looked into BuildDirList function in codemax code and do
> not see any hardcoded limit.
> 
> 
>>that the last batch I added suddenly caused 
>>POV-Ray to show menu images on menus 'other' than the insert menu as a 
>>side effect?
> 
> 
> Can you write me more about it?
> 
> Have you already reported your problems somewhere ?
> 
> ABX

I mentioned this a while back (a couple of months perhaps, but a search 
of news.povray.org doesn't reveal the message) and didn't see a response 
that addressed a solution. This also was brought up by Thomas Eicher on 
10 Sept, 2002. It shows up when adding a couple of Insert menu add-ons 
("Basic templates" by Friedrich Lohmueller and "IsoCSG include file" by 
a person whose name I don't have access to at this time).

Two problems show up:
1) Past a certain point in the Insert menu, nothing is inserted in the
    file being edited. With both add-ons installed, Shapes/quadric will
    insert text, but Shapes/quartic will not. This breakpoint changes
    depending on which add-ons are present, and what position they are
    placed in the menu.
2) Previews show up in strange places. With the above mentioned add-ons
    installed, I see previews under various items in the Render menu (for
    example "Select File and Render" and "Run Demo"). They show up all of
    the way through to "Help/About POV-Ray for Windows...".

Let me know if you need any additional info.


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