On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:27:52 EDT, "joost_1972" <joo### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:

>1) I really like the coloring in the editor window, but can't seem to turn it on
>for a few of my files (I assume its called "Color Syntax Highlighting", but that
>option seems to be on everywhere, even in files that only have black&white
>text.)

Do the files that are in black and white have a "pov" or "inc" extension?  Search for
"syntax highlighting" in the help file.

>2) Is there the possibility to show the results of functions you use in macro's.
>I've made a macro which involves rotating a triangle by the result of the
>function (atan2), but it doesn't render as I expected it to. I would like to
>see the plain number result of the function, in stead of just the final render,
>because there could be numerous reasons why my triangle is not ending up where I
>expected it to (for all I know it could be rotating 20 full circles and ending
>up in nearly the same position it started in...)

Look into the #debug statement.

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