On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 21:55:01 +1100, Chris Cason 
<new### [at] deletethispovrayorg> wrote:

>
> "Phil Cook" <phi### [at] nospamdeckingdealscouk> wrote in message 
> news:opr4rbw8byp4ukzs@news.povray.org...
>> Oops sorry my bad, Windows, v3.5. 'Show' only displays the last rendered
>> file regardless of which file you're currently editing, multiple 
>> instances
>> of POV-ray show the last render as per each instance.
>
> To be more specific, 'show' doesn't actually display a rendered 'file'; 
> it
> re-displays the pixel data that is still stored in memory after the 
> display
> window was closed.
>
> It does not read a file from disk, as you seem to think. POV-Ray is not 
> an
> image viewer, nor is it meant to be (as there are other programs that do
> that quite well).

Actually I thought that might be the case and was prepared for someone to 
give that as a reason why 'Show' didn't work in that way; but as the 
compression algorithms to output to certain formats are obviously present 
I thought it might be a possibility that the full codecs was implemented 
and that it *may* be made to work in that way and that I had just missed a 
switch somewhere: obviously not.

--
Phil

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happy to be proven wrong.

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