#include "colors.inc"

No comments after a successful installation on my
laptor Acer (Pentium Dual Core T4400) running w7-64bits)


regards
B. Gimeno

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Chris Cason <del### [at] deletethistoopovrayorg> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I would appreciate it if some of you could sanity-check the RC5
> windows installer, which may be found here:
>
>   http://www.povray.org/beta/povwin-3.7.RC5-setup.exe
>
> Please advise if you have any installation issues.
>
> -- Chris

No problem for me.

Bruno

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Chris
Same issue with installing as RC4 on XP64 sp2 (no sp3 available).
Probally to do with the certification

greetings
Bert

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> I would appreciate it if some of you could sanity-check the RC5
> windows installer, which may be found here:

Installed successfully on Windows 7 x64.

Note that I tried running it without elevation to see what
would happen and got the elevation dialog. Does this mean a
per-user install is no longer supported? Personally I don't
mind but based on previous posts some people do.

Two minor issues:

- The name of the desktop icon is quite long and the version number
   got truncated (...). As the "for Windows" part is rather redundant
   on a Windows desktop I'd suggest to just use "POV-Ray v3.7 RC5".

- It seems the help index has been fixed, but by chance the first
   item I tried was "pigment_pattern" (with underscore), and this mapped
   to the documentation for "pavement".

Regards,

   Christian

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>> I would appreciate it if some of you could sanity-check the RC5
>> windows installer, which may be found here:
>
> Installed successfully on Windows 7 x64.
>
> Note that I tried running it without elevation to see what
> would happen and got the elevation dialog. Does this mean a
> per-user install is no longer supported? Personally I don't
> mind but based on previous posts some people do.
>
> Two minor issues:
>
> - The name of the desktop icon is quite long and the version number
> got truncated (...). As the "for Windows" part is rather redundant
> on a Windows desktop I'd suggest to just use "POV-Ray v3.7 RC5".
>
> - It seems the help index has been fixed, but by chance the first
> item I tried was "pigment_pattern" (with underscore), and this mapped
> to the documentation for "pavement".
>
> Regards,
>
> Christian

For the name of the icon, I think that only "POV-Ray v3.7 RC" would be 
enough.
A test should be made for the partial name "POV-Ray v3.7", and if found, 
only update that shortcut, or replace it. I have the habit of shortening 
and simplifying to long icon's names, and get duplicates.

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Chris Cason wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I would appreciate it if some of you could sanity-check the RC5
> windows installer, which may be found here:
>
>   http://www.povray.org/beta/povwin-3.7.RC5-setup.exe
>
> Please advise if you have any installation issues.
>
> -- Chris

Hello,

I have a problem with registering .pov-files to the right POV-Ray application.
Namely, when I double-click on a .pov-file, it opens in the 32-bit POV-Ray
application (pvengine.exe). My operating system is Windows 7 Home premium
64-bit. I cannot change that association to the 64-bit application
(pvengine64.exe) because my Windows doesn't accept opening the file in that when
I use the command "Open with..". Only pvengine.exe becomes an application in the
list of suitable applications.

I can drag and drop .pov-files to the editor if it's already open, but not if
only the Messages-tab is open.

RC4 registered the file types correctly. I uninstalled that before installing
RC5.

-Mika

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Chris Cason <del### [at] deletethistoopovrayorg> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I would appreciate it if some of you could sanity-check the RC5
> windows installer, which may be found here:
>
>   http://www.povray.org/beta/povwin-3.7.RC5-setup.exe
>
> Please advise if you have any installation issues.
>
> -- Chris

Hello,

I have a problem with registering .pov-files to the right POV-Ray application.
Namely, when I double-click on a .pov-file, it opens in the 32-bit POV-Ray
application (pvengine.exe). My operating system is Windows 7 Home premium
64-bit. I cannot change that association to the 64-bit application
(pvengine64.exe) because my Windows doesn't accept opening the file in that when
I use the command "Open with..". Only pvengine.exe becomes an application in the
list of suitable applications.

I can drag and drop .pov-files to the editor if it's already open, but not if
only the Messages-tab is open.

RC4 registered the file types correctly. I uninstalled that before installing
RC5.

-Mika

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On 15/03/2012 08:15, Mika L wrote:
> I have a problem with registering .pov-files to the right POV-Ray application.
> Namely, when I double-click on a .pov-file, it opens in the 32-bit POV-Ray
> application (pvengine.exe). My operating system is Windows 7 Home premium
> 64-bit. I cannot change that association to the 64-bit application
> (pvengine64.exe) because my Windows doesn't accept opening the file in that when
> I use the command "Open with..". Only pvengine.exe becomes an application in the
> list of suitable applications.
> 
> I can drag and drop .pov-files to the editor if it's already open, but not if
> only the Messages-tab is open.
> 
> RC4 registered the file types correctly. I uninstalled that before installing
> RC5.

Thanks for pointing this out. It will be fixed.

-- Chris

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Mika L wrote:

> I have a problem with registering .pov-files to the right POV-Ray application.
> Namely, when I double-click on a .pov-file, it opens in the 32-bit POV-Ray
> application (pvengine.exe). 

I now tried this too and found that in my case, the POV files
were still associated with my 3.6 installation. Associating it
with pvengine64.exe did not work, associating it with pvengine.exe
worked but connect to the render command instead of open (???).

The command under

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\povfile\shell\Open\command

appeared to be correct. After deleting

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.pov\UserChoice

everything worked fine (Windows 7 x64). So possibly Windows got confused
with an earlier manual association, but the behavior was still strange.

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I am not getting any file association with .pov files with both RC4 and RC5. 
RC3 and earlier did this okay.
If I open a .pov file I get the windows pop-up asking me to pick a program 
or search for one and have to do it manually.
I thought it was perhaps my windows installation causing this but maybe its 
not?

"Chris Cason"  wrote in message news:4f59d1d0$1@news.povray.org...

Folks,

I would appreciate it if some of you could sanity-check the RC5
windows installer, which may be found here:

  http://www.povray.org/beta/povwin-3.7.RC5-setup.exe

Please advise if you have any installation issues.

-- Chris

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