Hi there,

I encounter similar problems trying to save modifications to files in
POV-Ray after aborting during parsing. I am running POV-Ray version
3.6.0.icl8.win32 under Windows XP Professional (SP1); hardware: 2.6 GHz P4,
512 MB RAM.

I have a scene file which seems to cause this error consistently if POV is
aborted during parsing. The error is produced this way:
* pressing 'Run' (or Alt+G) with the scene file in question;
* aborting while parsing (just 1 second of parsing should be sufficient to
reproduce it, but aborting during the rendering itself or letting the render
finish does not pose any problems at all);
* making a change to the .pov file (try adding a small comment, for
example);
* trying to save the .pov file afterwards (at any time until I exit POV, it
seems).

Trying to press 'Save', POV-Ray displays this message:

POV-Ray Editor
EAccessViolation: EAccessViolation

In this case, POV also fails to rename the original file to .bak. Upon
exiting POV, if I choose to save my changes, Windows tells me that POV has
crashed and the changes are not saved (choosing to discard the changes,
things are just fine). It affects only the .pov file in question; I can save
changes to other files without problems.

I can still use 'Save As...' with the .pov file in question, but trying to
save it with the original name still yields the 'EAccessViolation' error.

I have tried re-downloading and reinstalling POV 3.6, which didn't help the
problem. I wasn't able to reproduce the problem with POV 3.5.

The scene file uses an include file with a macro for outlining a mesh. The
macro uses 1D arrays quite extensively; I'll be posting the scene and
include file in povray.binaries.scene-files shortly.

- Peter

"RTRT buff" <tom### [at] yahoocom> skrev i en meddelelse
news:40fa5904@news.povray.org...
> run POV 3.6 on win XP
> failing to save file "<filename here>"
>
> some thing else using file???
>
> just before rendering
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