POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.newusers : Auto render off (but still on) : Re: Auto render off (but still on) Server Time
5 Oct 2024 15:48:57 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Auto render off (but still on)  
From: Darats
Date: 28 Sep 2009 17:30:00
Message: <web.4ac12a36a3ae398e98b5d1e80@news.povray.org>
"Trevor G Quayle" <Tin### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> "Darats" <damien___@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've a problem with the auto-render feature, I disabled it but every time I
> > double-click on a pov-ray file, it just opens pov-ray and still start rendering.
> > I would like to open every file just into the Editor and be able to start the
> > rendering only manually.
> >
> > I've checked and the Autorender is 0 (off).
> >
> > Could you please help me ?
> >
> > Thanks a lot.
>
> The Auto-Render setting under the Render file menu is for the File Queue (see
> 1.5.7.6 in the docs)
>
> Assuming you are using windows (likely), it sounds like it is just your file
> association.
>
> When you left click on the file there should be 2 options with one in bold:
>
> Edit with in POV-Ray
> Render with POV-Ray
>
> the bolded one is the default and it sound like it's set to render.
>
> If you don't know how to change this:
> In Windows Explorer, go to the menu item [Tools/Folder Options...]
> In the "File Types" tab, find POV extension, click "Advanced"
> Select the "Edit in POV-Ray" action and click "set default"
> Done!, click OK
>
> -tgq

Thanks a lot, I see what you means with XP, but in fact I'm running Seven. Do
you have any clue haw to do it with this OS (I think I should be the same as
Vista).


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