"Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote in
news:3e5e415f@news.povray.org: 

> In article <web.3e5e38438feffecd4a47b6380@news.povray.org> , "Brian" 
> <brl### [at] smcmedu> wrote:
> 
>> I am writing an program that generates POV files, then I want a
>> seperate thread to call POV-ray to render the files.  The problem is,
>> when I call POV-ray from the program with the right command line
>> parameters, it loads the splash screen and the text editor with the
>> file I want rendered open waiting for the user.  Is there a way of
>> calling POV-ray where is just pops up to render the file, or even
>> just renders the file in the background, and saves output to a file?
> 
> This is the wrong group to ask this question.  I assume you are
> talking about the Windows version, and for that it has been explained
> several times in the past few month in povray.windows.  Just go
> through the list of posts there.
> 
>     Thorsten
> 

This has become a frequent request. There have been several custom 
compliles of a console mode version for windows, and at least one gui 
extension.  Would the team consider providing a official console mode 
version with the next bugfix release?  Follow ups set to povray.windows

Thanks
Tom

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