Hi all,

Can pov-ray application be run on background automatically
when the rendering is started?
Because I would like to set up a task to do the job
without pop up the main gui window.

If can, how to set up the options?

Thanks in advance.

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Changer wrote:
> If can, how to set up the options?

start pvengine.exe /render World.pov /exit

That should do it. Tweak to satisfaction.

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   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     I bet exercise equipment would be a lot more
     expensive if we had evolved from starfish.

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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Changer wrote:
> > If can, how to set up the options?
>
> start pvengine.exe /render World.pov /exit
>
> That should do it. Tweak to satisfaction.
>
> --
>    Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
>      I bet exercise equipment would be a lot more
>      expensive if we had evolved from starfish.



Any hints on how to disable the focus of the gui? whenever a new render is
spawn, on my SP1, I can still continue working (focus not moved) while the
render continue on it's way. But for SP2 machine, the new render gui will
grab focus (and thus hiding my current open window). And prevent me from
continuing my work.

I am running 3.7 beta 22 on 2 machine.

one is running a XP Pro SP1 in classical taskbar mode
the other is XP Pro SP2 in classical taskbar mode

both the povray settings are identical as far as I can tell
option>>single instance, toolbar
option>>render window>> hide when main is min
ini: Display=off
cmd: /exit

is this a window setting problem thingy? or could there be something I can
set?

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zeroin23 wrote:
> is this a window setting problem thingy? or could there be something I can
> set?

Possibly. Download "Powertoys for XP" from Microsoft. Install TweakUI. 
Go to General->Focus and check "Prevent applications from stealing 
focus". There's undoubtably a way of doing it by prodding the registry 
directly, but I'll leave it to you to google.

That *should* prevent the problem, unless POV-for-windows goes out of 
its way to steal the focus or does something Microsoft didn't expect. 
Which is possible.

I kind of remember being annoyed by this myself. Something in the 
configuration of the splash screen steals the focus unnecessarily, I think.

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     Remember the good old days, when we
     used to complain about cryptography
     being export-restricted?

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> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> start pvengine.exe /render World.pov /exit
> 
> 
> 
> Any hints on how to disable the focus of the gui? whenever a new render is
> spawn, on my SP1, I can still continue working (focus not moved) while the
> render continue on it's way. But for SP2 machine, the new render gui will
> grab focus (and thus hiding my current open window). And prevent me from
> continuing my work.
> 

I'm probably late answering this, but I will anyway. Try this:

start /min pvengine.exe /render World.pov /exit

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