"Tom Melly" <pov### [at] tomandlucouk> wrote:

> <snip>
>
> Could be fun - can someone remind me, can pov construct and execute external
> commands?

Hi,

I don` t know.

but you could write a file (command.txt) with povray, with just one line:

myprogram.exe

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Then you run a small programm in wxbasic or whatever:

//--------------- pseudocode

while(1)
 fopen command.txt as #1
  line input thecommand
  if right(thecommand,3) = "exe" then
   shell(thecommand) //-- execute the line as an external program
  end
 fclose #1
 deletefile("command.txt") //-- delete file to avoid repeated execution
 sleep(5)
end while

//-- end ---------- pseudocode

Greets, Mark

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