Anyone in-the-know about Super Patch (povray.exe) and Photon Patch
(uvpov.exe) working with the 3.1e (Windows) version?
I've tried various ways; running in separate folders along with the
editor DLLs from version 3.1d or 3.1a, and nothing seems to work.
Is there a trick to this? Or am I doing this all in vain...?
Curious, since I had figured these were stand-alone executables so long
as they had their corresponding DLL files.
It's as if the 3.1e install does something in the registry which can
affect every other povray executable (despite the different names too).
I couldn't even run the 3.1d original pvengine.exe from another location
where it was backed up to.

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Bob Hughes <inv### [at] aolcom> wrote:

>Anyone in-the-know about Super Patch (povray.exe) and Photon Patch
>(uvpov.exe) working with the 3.1e (Windows) version?
>I've tried various ways; running in separate folders along with the
>editor DLLs from version 3.1d or 3.1a, and nothing seems to work.
>Is there a trick to this? Or am I doing this all in vain...?

POVWIN finds its editor DLL via the registry. I think I'll have to release a
patched version that does it another way, given the number of people who want
to run the 3.1d version as well.

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Drat! err, I mean, great!
I just posted at povray.windows a batch file way to do it. Goes well
too, for me at least.


"povray.org admin team" wrote:
> 
> Bob Hughes <inv### [at] aolcom> wrote:
> 
> >Anyone in-the-know about Super Patch (povray.exe) and Photon Patch
> >(uvpov.exe) working with the 3.1e (Windows) version?
> >I've tried various ways; running in separate folders along with the
> >editor DLLs from version 3.1d or 3.1a, and nothing seems to work.
> >Is there a trick to this? Or am I doing this all in vain...?
> 
> POVWIN finds its editor DLL via the registry. I think I'll have to release a
> patched version that does it another way, given the number of people who want
> to run the 3.1d version as well.

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povray.org admin team <new### [at] despampovrayorg> wrote:
: POVWIN finds its editor DLL via the registry. I think I'll have to release a
: patched version that does it another way, given the number of people who want
: to run the 3.1d version as well.

  Why anyone would want to use 3.1d? I don't understand.

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Bob Hughes <inv### [at] aolcom> wrote:

>Anyone in-the-know about Super Patch (povray.exe) and Photon Patch
>(uvpov.exe) working with the 3.1e (Windows) version?
>I've tried various ways; running in separate folders along with the
>editor DLLs from version 3.1d or 3.1a, and nothing seems to work.

Please try downloading

  http://www.povray.org/temp/pve31up.exe

and install that. It's a new way of installing the update that I want tested
(other users please try it as well). It sets the 3.1e variable in the registry
(textureview wants this).

In addition, however, the exe included (3.1e.watcom.win32.r1) will load
cmedit.dll from the current directory if it is found there ; otherwise it loads
it from the path shown in the directory.

Let me know if both of these work for you.

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As I posted in the povray.windows ng it didn't go right, for me anyway.
Will need to sign-off and restart Windows to be positive of it though.
Will reply as to success or failure in a while.

"povray.org admin team" wrote:
> 
> Bob Hughes <inv### [at] aolcom> wrote:
> 
> >Anyone in-the-know about Super Patch (povray.exe) and Photon Patch
> >(uvpov.exe) working with the 3.1e (Windows) version?
> >I've tried various ways; running in separate folders along with the
> >editor DLLs from version 3.1d or 3.1a, and nothing seems to work.
> 
> Please try downloading
> 
>   http://www.povray.org/temp/pve31up.exe
> 
> and install that. It's a new way of installing the update that I want tested
> (other users please try it as well). It sets the 3.1e variable in the registry
> (textureview wants this).
> 
> In addition, however, the exe included (3.1e.watcom.win32.r1) will load
> cmedit.dll from the current directory if it is found there ; otherwise it loads
> it from the path shown in the directory.
> 
> Let me know if both of these work for you.

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Failed, sorry to say.
I restarted Windows and still editor error occurs after the pve31up
install.
I looked in the Windows Registry and under the POV-Ray key is a Windows
key by itself which says VersionNo="3.1d" in it, only such thing there
besides all the 3.1e stuff.


Bob Hughes wrote:
> 
> As I posted in the povray.windows ng it didn't go right, for me anyway.
> Will need to sign-off and restart Windows to be positive of it though.
> Will reply as to success or failure in a while.
> 
> "povray.org admin team" wrote:
> >
> > Bob Hughes <inv### [at] aolcom> wrote:
> >
> > >Anyone in-the-know about Super Patch (povray.exe) and Photon Patch
> > >(uvpov.exe) working with the 3.1e (Windows) version?
> > >I've tried various ways; running in separate folders along with the
> > >editor DLLs from version 3.1d or 3.1a, and nothing seems to work.
> >
> > Please try downloading
> >
> >   http://www.povray.org/temp/pve31up.exe
> >
> > and install that. It's a new way of installing the update that I want tested
> > (other users please try it as well). It sets the 3.1e variable in the registry
> > (textureview wants this).
> >
> > In addition, however, the exe included (3.1e.watcom.win32.r1) will load
> > cmedit.dll from the current directory if it is found there ; otherwise it loads
> > it from the path shown in the directory.
> >
> > Let me know if both of these work for you.
> 
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Bob Hughes <inv### [at] aolcom> wrote:

>I restarted Windows and still editor error occurs after the pve31up
>install.

See my reply in .windows. It appears to me that you're expecting the patched
versions to act differently after installing a new official EXE. This cannot,
of course, happen. The new EXE only affects the official version.

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