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From: How Camp
Subject: Minor little bug?
Date: 11 Aug 2000 14:50:10
Message: <39944ae2@news.povray.org>
Hmm.  Is it just my system, or does this happen to everyone:

Using version 3.1g (or MegaPov 0.5a), I can select a portion of text, either
with the mouse or by holding down the shift key while moving my cursor.
Then, if I use the control key with my cursor arrows, I can move the entire
screen up and down one line (which is supposed to happen).  However, when I
move my cursor to a different position using the keyboard, the hilighted
portion of text remains hilighted.

If I click with the mouse on the same side of the hilight that contains the
cursor (above or below the hilighted portion), it will also remain.

I know, I know, it's completely nit-picky and has nothing whatsoever to do
with the functionality of POV, but I figure it might be a simple fix...

As a side note, I did want to check ahead of time to see if this hadn't
already been mentioned, and came across this statement in "How to post bug
reports" from p.a.f-a-q posted on 1/4/99:

"There is a list of bugfixes for the most recent versions of POV-Ray
posted in the povray.announce.frequently-asked-questions group."

Uh, I couldn't find it.  Anyone (ahem, Uncle Ken?) know where the current
list is?  The document also mentions that possible bug reports should first
be discussed in povray.general, but since this is a windows-only bug, I
figured it belonged here.

- How


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From: Bob Hughes
Subject: Re: Minor little bug?
Date: 11 Aug 2000 20:31:11
Message: <39949acf$1@news.povray.org>
"How Camp" <hca### [at] ksuedu> wrote in message news:39944ae2@news.povray.org...
| Hmm.  Is it just my system, or does this happen to everyone:

Happens here too.  What I think happens is by pressing Ctrl you forego the
highlighting (no more ability to Copy or Cut) yet the editor leaves it there
until refreshed over.
A minor bug indeed.
What I come across all the time is trying to mouse click at the beginning of
a highlighted line and have the highlighting go away but does not, so I
always fear overwriting something.  Well, no fear really since it can be
undone but it's similar I guess to what you are saying.
Sorry, no sight of anything at the f.a.q. group either, only one of the most
recent postings by Ken T.

Bob


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From: Ken
Subject: Re: Minor little bug?
Date: 12 Aug 2000 00:15:56
Message: <3994CF24.9EEDA780@pacbell.net>
Bob Hughes wrote:

> Sorry, no sight of anything at the f.a.q. group either, only one of the most
> recent postings by Ken T.

Oh come on guys -

Here are the changes between public POV-Ray 3.1 and 3.1g

3.1g               04/26/99 Chris Young
Fixed 4d vector bug

3.1f               04/22/99 Chris Young
Fixed problem with missing ) in #write that crashed
Fixed bump_map bug introduced in 3.1e
Fixed problem with empty textures
Fixed #macro inside #while problem
Trapped vnormalize(<0,0,0>)
Updated copyright, removed compuserve

3.1e               03/05/99 Chris Young
Fixed bump_map bug introduced in 3.1a
Misc unix/linux fixes and cleanups

3.1d               1/30/99 Chris Young
Fixed crash in #write of vector or float
Added #write and #read now support 2d, 4d, & 5d vectors.

3.1c               1/29/99 Chris Young
Fixed radiosity preview with odd screen size.
Reinitialized max_trace_level & radiosity_trace_level properly
Fixed token at end of file with no cr/lf or newline

3.1b               1/18/99 Chris Young
Blob elements transformed after textures now works
Can now declare 2D vectors
Can now declare 4D vectors
Can now declare 5D vectors as colors
Fixed vector.v bug
Partial fix to bump_map bugs
Fixed bug involving "once" and "interpolate"
Fixed reflection leak bug
Fixed potential GPF in ListReflect
Fixed normal checker, hexagon bug
Fixed skysphere with no color_map crash
Fixed transform identifier parsing problem
Fixed #local with same name as #declare of different type bug
Fixed average normal bug and other normal flipping problems
Removed double_illuminate for normal{} but retained it for
  smooth_triangle, smoothed height_fields, and bicubic_patch. Will
  redesign in 3.5 and consider added optional keyword double_illuminate.
Fixed normal{average} with no map crash
Fixed various conic_sweep prism bugs
Change in resumed render line numbering
Fixed focal blur gamma correction bug
Fixed recursive include overflow bug
Fixed recursive macro overflow bug
Fixed #write double closing which crashed Linux
Delete degenerate smooth_triangles when normals bend too much.
Many MS-Dos changes so C++ compiler can be used.
Changed EPSILON small value in MS-Dos version

3.1a               9/29/98 Chris Young
Fixed problem with sor and lathe affecting unix and amiga
Fixed fclose in FILE_EXISTS
Fixed crackle and black_hole use of POV_SRAND.
  Note POV_SRAND and POV_RAND no longer reconfigurable
  in frame.h or config.h.  If you redefined them on your
  platform -- don't.



-- 
Ken Tyler - 1400+ POV-Ray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html http://www.povray.org/links/


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From: Bob Hughes
Subject: Re: Minor little bug?
Date: 12 Aug 2000 02:31:19
Message: <3994ef37@news.povray.org>
Thanks Ken, you are like the reference books on my bookshelves.  I have no
excuse other than being too lazy to relist the f.a.q. group again.
I realize now that this text of changes (hint,hint) is in the Changes.txt
file which is distributed right along with POV-Ray in the first place.  Knew
that before too, that's why I went looking for it again just now.  You can
find it in the main folder, How C.  Also has the editor info in there too.
On another note:  it's been a couple of years since version 3.1 came about.
I felt I was reminescing over the things that were fixed since then while
reading through some of that text.  The "beta 6" seems like it were new
yesterday.  Ahhh, precious memories.

Bob


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From: How Camp
Subject: Re: Minor little bug?
Date: 14 Aug 2000 13:31:25
Message: <39982ced$1@news.povray.org>
Ah, thanks to both of you!  Actually, it was all an attempt to get Ken to
answer one of my posts - now I can die a happy man...

- How

"Bob Hughes" <per### [at] aolcom?subject=PoV-News:> wrote in message
news:3994ef37@news.povray.org...
> Thanks Ken, you are like the reference books on my bookshelves.  I have no
> excuse other than being too lazy to relist the f.a.q. group again.
> I realize now that this text of changes (hint,hint) is in the Changes.txt
> file which is distributed right along with POV-Ray in the first place.
Knew
> that before too, that's why I went looking for it again just now.  You can
> find it in the main folder, How C.  Also has the editor info in there too.
> On another note:  it's been a couple of years since version 3.1 came
about.
> I felt I was reminescing over the things that were fixed since then while
> reading through some of that text.  The "beta 6" seems like it were new
> yesterday.  Ahhh, precious memories.
>
> Bob


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From: Ron Parker
Subject: Re: Minor little bug?
Date: 21 Aug 2000 00:27:50
Message: <slrn8q1cle.oo.ron.parker@fwi.com>
On Mon, 14 Aug 2000 12:31:15 -0500, How Camp wrote:
>Ah, thanks to both of you!  Actually, it was all an attempt to get Ken to
>answer one of my posts - now I can die a happy man...

The more difficult goal is to get Ken to NOT answer any of your posts.
I'm not sure anyone has yet achieved that one.

-- 
Ron Parker   http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html
My opinions.  Mine.  Not anyone else's.


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