"Ken" <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message
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>
> all  that time  not a single  person has expressed  dissatisfaction  with
the
> behavior you described.

I do hide my taskbar. I set it that way every time I've installed Windows.
In doing so I've forgotten I had a render paused after needing to get
another task done which POV-Ray can seriously slow down, esp. if on High
Render Priority. Even with all the patience necessary for raytracing,
dropping behind only 10 minutes can seem to be long a delay in getting a
rendering done.

I almost suspended my computer (Sleep) a few months ago when I had POV
minimized and hidden away and I still remember that because I'd have lost
the time it was meant to be working on a render. If only I applied more
effort to setting renders going a lot more in the first place maybe that
wouldn't have made me paranoid about forgetting one.

Anyway, the blinking Pause button and taskbar box hasn't caused me to think
it should be possible to switch it off. And I think you can get my point
here about why it would be even worse, for me at least, to mistakenly let it
pause forever or suspend the computer accidentally. Even so, I can imagine
this suggestion might be a little worthwhile if the "off" condition meant
the window and taskbar box changed to a obvious yet non-blinking color;
better yet a pattern, since color settings of Windows could potentially be
the same as the alerting one, but then a pattern probably isn't feasible.
Not sure about that.

Easy to understand though why most people probably like that POV-Ray blinks
a signal to them if they have done thing like me.

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Thanks for your lengthy and polite response Ken, and I apologize again for
my overreaction...

However, Slime also agreed that it is annoying. We're 2 now :)

Actually I don't pause POV-Ray that often, but when I do, I usually prefer
to abort the render because the blink is TOO distracting. That's why I
thought about investing some of my time in giving this suggestion for a
future version.

My apologies again,

Fernando

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I've never liked it either, for what it's worth, but I've learned to live
with it.

--
Anthony Bennett

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> I've never liked it either, for what it's worth, but I've learned to live
> with it.

That's three! We have three!

 - Slime
[ http://www.slimeland.com/ ]

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Count me in, too. Some switch would be useful.

But I guess if we keep counting, some might get pissed... :-)

--
Tim Nikias
Homepage: http://www.digitaltwilight.de/no_lights/index.html
Email: Tim### [at] gmxde

>
> That's three! We have three!
>
>  - Slime

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"Tim Nikias" <tim### [at] gmxde> wrote in news:3e25bc6d@news.povray.org:

> Count me in, too. Some switch would be useful.
> 

On a related issue, if the system tray menu could have pause and resume 
added to it that would be nice.

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"Ken" <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message
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> Actually it is a simply matter of priority.  POV-Ray version 3.5 went
through
> extensive alpha,  pre-beta  and  public beta testing periods lasting
nearly a
> year and has been released to the general public for almost 3 months now.
In
> all  that time  not a single  person has expressed  dissatisfaction  with
the
> behavior you described.

Actually, I did. But it was in p.o-t, so...


Povingly,


Philippe

--- Here begins the original message, posted on the 18th of july 2002 ---
(In Win2k)



It's funny, but sometimes IE seems unable to start rendering a webpage while
pov is rendering. A simple pause-unpause usually solve the problem for the
page being...



BTW, is there any way to stop Pov from flashing so annoyingly while in pause
(in the taskbar and in the main pov windows - heck, the menus are even
grayed out, as if they were disabled, which they aren't) ?





Philippe
--- Here ends the original message ---

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As for the blinking problem I do not care one way or another. I have never
pause my renderings.

I do agree with Fernando in that many many times I have posted in a news
group and got flippant or other comments that sounded more like I was
wasting time making a comment. I have now just assumed that there will be
those that just pop off a reply with out actually reading and thanking about
the post.

Not everyone is that skilled with the internet nor  been online or on the
newsgroup for ever or knows "proper posting manners" I got screamed at once
for where I put my reply, above or below the other persons text. I still can
not tell you where I should be typing. I have seen it here where a post in
the wrong area and the whole thread is about where the dumb poster should
have put it. Instead it should have been only a small note with no other
posts.

This happens in every newsgroup I have viewed. At least here it is less
common and most replies are polite. In a lightwave newsgroup some fellow
asked a question and the replies where an interrogation over the legality of
the posters copy of the software. I just deleted a post form POV.general
because just after I had given up searching for the answer and posted I
found the answer in the pov doc.

My word of encouragement is try to remember the vast range of knowledge of
those posting before you decide to reply with criticism.

Thanks for letting me waste your time with another unnecessary post.

:)


"Fernando Gonzalez del Cueto" <fgd### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
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> I expected a:
>
> "Yeah, we'll pass this suggestion for the next release. It's a good idea
to
> add an option to turn it off, as it mustn't be hard at all to do it."
> or
> "Even though it is a minor thing, we thank you for your input and we will
> add it to the list of suggestions".
>
> I said it was annoying, not that I was getting freaked out by it. A
blinking
> thing in the taskbar is a sign that usually means "I need immediate user
> intervention"
> That's why I posted it as a suggestion, not as an urgent fix.
>
> I'm truly sorry if I overreacted, but I interpreted the "So, hide the
> taskbar and you won't have to see it." as a "This is not a valid
suggestion
> because I don't find it annoying. Find yourself a way to fix it."
>
> Fernando.
>
>
>

> news:3e23e904@news.povray.org...
> > In article <3e23b6a7$1@news.povray.org> , "Fernando Gonzalez del Cueto"
> > <fgd### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> >
> > > If the taskbar were utterly unnecessary I would have already hid it...
> > >
> > > I was only trying to give my point of view... which could make this
> great
> > > program a bit better.
> > >
> > > Next time I'll just shut my mouth up... no suggestions are welcomed
> here.
> >
> > Well, you said it is annoying so people suggested ways how to turn it
off
> > for now.  I don't see why you conclude "no suggestions are welcomed
here"
> > from people trying help you work around the problem.
> >
> > After all, you cannot expect somebody immediately going to release a new
> > version of POV-Ray just to offer you an option to turn this off...
> >
> >     Thorsten
> >
>
>

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"Tom Galvin" <tom### [at] imporg> wrote in message
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>
> On a related issue, if the system tray menu could have pause and resume
> added to it that would be nice.

Me too.

Oh, sorry, that should be "yes, I have often considered that such an option
would be of benefit."

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"Tim Nikias" <tim### [at] gmxde> wrote in message
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> Count me in, too. Some switch would be useful.
>
> But I guess if we keep counting, some might get pissed... :-)
>
> --
> Tim Nikias
> Homepage: http://www.digitaltwilight.de/no_lights/index.html
> Email: Tim### [at] gmxde
>
> >
> > That's three! We have three!
> >
> >  - Slime
>

Just before I started reading this thread I was thinking how annoying the
blinking is.  Add me to the list.

--- Troy

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