In article <8EF5AE4F2seed7@204.213.191.228>, ing### [at] homenl (ingo) 
wrote:

> Will it make it possible for a Java (or Perl) program to interact with a 
> scene during parsing? Kind of a macro being executed outside POV and its 
> result being used in the scene again (without writing/reading a file). 
> 
> #binding {
>   perl,            //language
>   "GrowTree.pl"    //file
>   Age              //Data needed by GrowTree.pl
>   Shadowside
>   Oak
> }

I think the obvious security problems with this would keep it from being 
included in the official version.


> >The resulting Java program would, if compiled and run, create a standard
> >POV-Script plugin which could be included into any POV-Scene, and which
> >would contain any macro and object created in the Java-Script.
> 
> This sounds more like a program that can output a POV-file but not 
> interact with POV.

My idea is a program that in it's most basic form would take an input 
CSDL file and some parameters, and output a POV file(or several POV 
files). It could be extended for each platform to allow it to interact 
directly with POV, for example, having a GUI editor with a render 
command which automatically translates and renders a scene. But the 
basic version would be written in ANSI/ISO C++ and would be directly 
portable to any platform with a compiler for that language.

-- 
Chris Huff
e-mail: chr### [at] yahoocom
Web page: http://chrishuff.dhs.org/

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