Dan Connelly wrote:
> in emacs window: cntl-S
whoops: cntl-X cntl-S.

My fingers know what to do, anyway.. :)

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Isn't there one called KPov or something for KDE?

And I believe SciTE is able to launch POV-Ray directly with a
button-press, and it does great syntax highlighting.  Configure POV to
display the output as it renders.

...Ben Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com

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Dan Connelly escreveu:
> Dan Connelly wrote:
>> in emacs window: cntl-S
> whoops: cntl-X cntl-S.
> 
> My fingers know what to do, anyway.. :)

An experienced emacs user going bloppers.  Just imagine a novice... :P

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Alessio Sangalli escreveu:
> Hi, every night before going to bed I teach a little bit of POV-ray to
> my wife.
> 
> The most annoying problem is that everytime she wants to see the scene
> she has to save, go to the shell, issue the povray command with some
> (for her) cryptic options and then open up an image viewer (or
> imagemagick's "display") to see the result.

Ever heard of bash history?  Up arrow key to access the last command, or 
CTRL+R + "word" to search for "word" in the history.  more CTRL+R to see 
older entries.

> PS I do *not* want a CAD-like or "visual" editor...

Why not?  Why impose such command line pain to your wife?  Women would 
certainly enjoy modelling with curves visually rather than typing like a 
geek.

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nemesis wrote:
> Why not?  Why impose such command line pain to your wife?  Women would 
> certainly enjoy modelling with curves visually rather than typing like a 
> geek.

Everyone knows women can't type.

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Dan Connelly wrote:
> nemesis wrote:
>> Why not?  Why impose such command line pain to your wife?  Women would 
>> certainly enjoy modelling with curves visually rather than typing like 
>> a geek.
> 
> Everyone knows women can't type.

I'd respond with a cogent and scathing retort, but I've suddenly found 
my fingers unable to locate the correct keys.

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> Any suggestion? PS I do *not* want a CAD-like or "visual" editor...
>
gedit
Syntax coloring works fine, and you can define povray invocation as
a menu option...

> as


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Chambers wrote:
> And I believe SciTE is able to launch POV-Ray directly with a
> button-press, and it does great syntax highlighting.

Yes, SciTE is great for editing POV-Ray files.

I have the following in my /usr/share/scite/pov.properties...

command.compile.*.pov=povray +P +W320 +H240 $(FileNameExt)
command.build.*.pov=povray +P +W800 +H600 $(FileNameExt)
command.go.*.pov=povray +P +W1332 +H999 +AM2 +A $(FileNameExt)


...which then let's me launch various different qualities of renders 
directly from the editor using the function key short cuts.

SciTE even shows you the povray output in a small pane to the right of 
the editor, so it's easy to see mistakes in the SDL code if there are 
any or to track the progress of the render.

-- 
Jonathan

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Alessio Sangalli wrote:

> Because my target here is not teach her how to script in bash but how to
> write scenes in POV-ray, I would feel much better if there was an
> "integrated" editor for POV-ray with buttons to select options and start
> rendering.

Get your wife a nice birthday present such as a laptop with a
user-friendly OS and install the Windows version of POV-Ray.
Do not despair if birthday is too far off, women usually
find occasion-free presents acceptable as well ;)

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Christian Froeschlin wrote:
> user-friendly OS....Windows 

Oh, my.....

Talk to anyone in system support how "user-friendly" Windows is.

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