Hi Carl,

Good to know that it worked for you too!
I had also tried, previously, to run pvengine.exe in compatibility
with XP SP2 and it failed to do animations.

I wouldn't say it is a bug in POV-Ray, better call it an incompatibility
with Vista's new themes features. Anyway, it is something the developers
(great guys, aren't they?) should know about.

Regarding the missing backslahes, guess that doubling them will
work (seems it looks like the C language, in which a backslash introduces
an escape sequence).
Let's try:
C:\\Program Files\\POV-Ray for Windows v3.6\\bin\\pvengine.exe
http:\\\\www.povray.org (I typed 4 backslashes here)

OK! So, to get this \\ you have to type this \\\\

Regards

Eudy

"Carl" <car### [at] semisouthcom> wrote in message 
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> "Eudy Silva" <eud### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>> Hi Carl,
>>
>> I just got POV-Ray 3.61c to do animations under Vista (Home Premium 
>> here).
>> Here's what I did, hope it works for you also:
>> Go to the directory where PORay was installed, enter the "bin" 
>> subdirectory,
>> right click on "pvengine.exe" and choose "Properties".
>> Under the "Compatibility" tab, mark the checkbox for "Disable visual
>> themes",
>> then click teh OK button.
>> That did the trick for me.
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Eudy
>
> THANK YOU!!!!  I have POV-Ray 3.6.1c and I've got Vista Ultimate.  Before 
> I
> saw your post I uninstalled POV-Ray and reinstalled it again.  This time I
> installed it to:
>
> C:UsersCarlPOV-Ray for Windows v3.6
>
> (There are a couple back slashes in there that I don't expect to show up
> when thos post goes through... not sure why.)
>
> I can now edit and save the ini file without having to run notepad as an
> administrator.  However I still couldn't use any of the animation options
> without POV-Ray just coming back and saying (Not Responding).  I had ran
> POV-Ray as an adminstrator and I changed the compatability tab to windows 
> xp
> sp2.  Neither had any effect.  If I tried both together I never got the 
> (Not
> Responding) message but it did hang up.  I then unselected the windows xp
> sp2 compatability option and tried your "Disable visual themes" option and
> it WORKED!!!  Nothing even had to be ran as an administrator.  I don't 
> have
> a clue why that worked but it did and I'm happy.
>
> Is this a bug I should report?
>
> Thank you again,
> Carl
>
>
>

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