If I close POV-Ray and then delete a file that I had open
in an edit window and then start POV-Ray again, I get the
following odd message:

"Failed to open file: The operation completed successfully"

Does this mean that POV-Ray had an intention to fail ?

=)

(POV-Ray Version 3.6.1.icl8.win32 running on Windows 2000
Professional Version 5.0.2195 Service Pack 2.)

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Tor Olav
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Tor Olav Kristensen <tor### [at] TOBEREMOVEDgmailcom> wrote:

> "Failed to open file: The operation completed successfully"
>
> Does this mean that POV-Ray had an intention to fail ?


Heh heh, I feel a T-shirt catch-phrase coming on...

"I'm a successful failure!"

And the follow-up bumper stickers... "My child successfully failed at
<insert school of choice>"

RG

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Tor Olav Kristensen wrote:
> 
> If I close POV-Ray and then delete a file that I had open
> in an edit window and then start POV-Ray again, I get the
> following odd message:
> 
> "Failed to open file: The operation completed successfully"
> 
> Does this mean that POV-Ray had an intention to fail ?
> 

A simple explanation of this:

the file open function probably returned a failure code, POVRay 
subsequently attempts to display an error message by going to windows to 
get the message for the return of GetLastError() [which gets the error 
code for the last operation]

"The operation completed successfully" is the text for error code 0 (no 
error)

Either of two things happened:

A) An operation between the error-causing function occured, clearing the 
last error.

B) The file open function somehow failed to set an error code.

[A] is much more likely, if a C Library function like fopen is used. it 
could have accidentally reset the error code by doing some cleanup.



-- 
~Mike

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