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From: Robert LaMarca
Subject: Output variable values to text file?
Date: 25 Nov 2003 20:30:01
Message: <web.3fc4013ec8c2892dd074241b0@news.povray.org>

Hello--

Is there something in POVRay that will allow one to kick out array and other
variable values to a text file?

barring that.. is there something in SDL akin to a messagebox?

And.. while we are at it.  Is there anything out there in POV land that will
connect this beautiful toy to a Database such as MySQL?

Thanks in advance for any takers on this one...

Robert

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From: Tim McMurdo
Subject: Re: Output variable values to text file?
Date: 25 Nov 2003 21:25:01
Message: <web.3fc40e71ef4d48a59a303f820@news.povray.org>

Robert

Tim Nikias created a great set of macros to output data to a text file. They
have been a huge help to me.

You can find them here:

http://www.nolights.de/download.html

Hope this helps,

Tim

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From: Christopher James Huff
Subject: Re: Output variable values to text file?
Date: 25 Nov 2003 21:43:09
Message: <cjameshuff-2B4245.21420425112003@netplex.aussie.org>

In article <web.3fc4013ec8c2892dd074241b0@news.povray.org>,
 "Robert LaMarca" <rob### [at] yahoocom> wrote:

> Is there something in POVRay that will allow one to kick out array and other
> variable values to a text file?

Yes...the file I/O directives and the message streams.
http://povray.org/documentation/view/147/
http://povray.org/documentation/view/151/


> barring that.. is there something in SDL akin to a messagebox?

No.


> And.. while we are at it.  Is there anything out there in POV land that will
> connect this beautiful toy to a Database such as MySQL?

No.

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Christopher James Huff <cja### [at] earthlinknet>
http://home.earthlink.net/~cjameshuff/
POV-Ray TAG: chr### [at] tagpovrayorg
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From: Tom Melly
Subject: Re: Output variable values to text file?
Date: 26 Nov 2003 04:35:10
Message: <3fc473ce$1@news.povray.org>

"Christopher James Huff" <cja### [at] earthlinknet> wrote in message
news:cja### [at] netplexaussieorg...

>
> > And.. while we are at it.  Is there anything out there in POV land that will
> > connect this beautiful toy to a Database such as MySQL?
>
> No.
>

... but you could write one. Perl would be my choice - what exactly do you want
to do with the db? Read scenes/objects from it? Write scenes/objects to it?

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From: Robert LaMarca
Subject: Re: Output variable values to text file?
Date: 26 Nov 2003 08:50:01
Message: <web.3fc4af37ef4d48a5a7ae47060@news.povray.org>

Chris, Tim, Tom-- Thanks for replies..this gives me some courses to pursue..

Tom, main reason for linking POV to a database would be to create an
automatic cataloguing system of my work of course... For instance...
finding all the images where the camera was x and the objects were y and z
and the distances between them were less than this and more than that.. ..
you get the idea.

I was getting a little frustrated typing the data manually ..

Of course, giving the system a dynamic data set could possibly have any
number of applications, no?

In any event I will examine this more closely over the holiday.. BTW.. Happy
Thanksgiving everyone and thanks for all your help!

Robert

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