How about a line number to go along with the "no pigment type given" error
message???

Eric
(who just spent an hour tracking down an object with no pigment)
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Eric Freeman wrote:
> 
> How about a line number to go along with the "no pigment type given" error
> message???
> 
> Eric
> (who just spent an hour tracking down an object with no pigment)

I hate to admit it Eric but when you are right you are really right.
That is one bugger of a problem to find sometimes.

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In article <38575816.BCA8F79E@pacbell.net> , Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet>  
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> Eric Freeman wrote:
>>
>> How about a line number to go along with the "no pigment type given" error
>> message???
>>
>> Eric
>> (who just spent an hour tracking down an object with no pigment)
>
> I hate to admit it Eric but when you are right you are really right.
> That is one bugger of a problem to find sometimes.

If no line number is listed that looks like a bug to me - so you know what
to do :-)


      Thorsten


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On Wed, 15 Dec 1999 09:30:37 -0600, Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
>In article <38575816.BCA8F79E@pacbell.net> , Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet>  
>wrote:
>
>> Eric Freeman wrote:
>>>
>>> How about a line number to go along with the "no pigment type given" error
>>> message???
>>>
>>> Eric
>>> (who just spent an hour tracking down an object with no pigment)
>>
>> I hate to admit it Eric but when you are right you are really right.
>> That is one bugger of a problem to find sometimes.
>
>If no line number is listed that looks like a bug to me - so you know what
>to do :-)

It's a little harder to fix than one might think.  The warning is printed
in post_pigment, which is called when the object finishes parsing, potentially
several lines after the texture is parsed.  Still, we should at least be able 
to get the line number of the end of the relevant object declaration.

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Thorsten Froehlich wrote:

> >> How about a line number to go along with the "no pigment type given" error
> >> message???
> >>
> >> Eric
> >> (who just spent an hour tracking down an object with no pigment)
> >
> > I hate to admit it Eric but when you are right you are really right.
> > That is one bugger of a problem to find sometimes.
> 
> If no line number is listed that looks like a bug to me - so you know what
> to do :-)
> 
>       Thorsten

Before I do what I am supposed to do can I get a verification that
this warning is indeed a bug by not issuing a line number for the
warning.

All that is needed to reproduce the error is to include the following
object in a file and render it -

box{-1,1)

Warning message is copied from the POV-Ray for Windows message window:

Redirecting Options
  All Streams to console..........On
  Debug Stream to console.........On
  Fatal Stream to console.........On
  Render Stream to console........On
  Statistics Stream to console....On
  Warning Stream to console.......On

No pigment type given.  <------------------

Scene contains 1 frame level objects; 0 infinite.

F:\Program Files\POV-Ray for Windows v3.1\test.pov


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Ron Parker wrote:

> >If no line number is listed that looks like a bug to me - so you know what
> >to do :-)
> 
> It's a little harder to fix than one might think.  The warning is printed
> in post_pigment, which is called when the object finishes parsing, potentially
> several lines after the texture is parsed.  Still, we should at least be able
> to get the line number of the end of the relevant object declaration.

  I can see how this would be a hard one to keep track of. They are
difficult to fix the scene for if the warning is issued for a deeply
nested CSG operation.

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