In article <40625573$1@news.povray.org>, dne### [at] sanrrcom says...
> Patrick Elliott wrote:
> If you're complaining that it's not already available for free, then it 
> doesn't sound like you're involved in professional print work at all. :-)
> 
No I am not. But if I did get into it, I would prefer a cheap and usable 
solution, not weeks spent trying to get something done that will work. 
Yes, you can do all this now, but it requires either using POV-Ray's 
plugin stuff, of which only 3 people have ever made one. QuietPOV, which 
is little more than a alternate way to start things up, the Moray Plugin 
that you can't get the source on and a totally non-functioning example 
you can use to base your own from. Most of the stuff in the plugin system 
no one has a clue how to use.

In any case, I was just talking about how I would do it, if I had a clue 
how to do so. I was replying to someone else's comment about such a thing 
not existing and suggesting how some of it might work, if anyone even did 
manage to design it. But I have an aversion to plugin/external program 
solutions for "basic" functionality, so didn't suggest such as a 
possibility initially. At the very least, any external solution runs the 
risk of being abandoned, ending up non-free (which for me is a non-
starter for even trying it) or eventually becomes useless as changes to 
the program it was designed for make it stop working. Something built in 
has less of a chance of this happening.

Maybe I am just strange or something, but sometimes I think about 
solutions to *other people's* problems. Admittedly this seems to be 
something rare and almost unheard of in open source, where 90% of stuff 
that gets made is what the designer needed, not what they spent a few 
minutes considering someone else may actually find more usable...

-- 
void main () {

    call functional_code()
  else
    call crash_windows();
}

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