How Camp <kro### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> I have a simple scene - one camera, one light, one sphere.  In my
> corresponding .ini file, I have the following line:
>
> Post_Frame_Command=test.bat
>
> My silly little brain seems to envision that when Povray is finished
> rendering this particular frame, it will happily run test.bat (located
> in the same directory).
>
> Test.bat is nothing exciting - I replaced my actual batch file with
> something like this:
>
> dir
>
> I can run test.bat myself, and I've checked to make sure Povray is
> allowed to start other programs, etc.  Yet when I run my scene, it
> renders fine, and then Povray seems to hang...  I eventually have to
> kill it by hand.  It gets mostly through printing the frame's stats in
> the status window, but that's all.
>
> How am I misusing (and misunderstanding) the post_frame_command?
>
> This is on WinXP, if it really makes any difference.  I'm assuming
> it's my fault, though, not my OS.
>
> - How

This brought back memories. Firstly I think you need to include the path
e.g. Post_Frame_Command=c:test.bat

Secondly do not use Post_Frame_Return=? Or it does not work.

Make sure that your permissions are set;

Disable starting other programmes not selected

Stephen

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