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14 Jun 2024 14:09:21 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Include color-changes in ini-files. possible?  
From: Stephen
Date: 20 Oct 2006 10:25:01
Message: <web.4538dbf1bb20a150f1cb1e660@news.povray.org>
Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> Olaf I. <ola### [at] ewetelnet> wrote:
> > You mean I should the part under "in thefile.ini:" in my ini-file and the
> > part under "in thefile.pov:", right?
> > But this is exactly what i not will!
> > I will only change the ini-file!!!
> > Not the pov.file!
>
>   You mean that you have an existing .pov file and that you want to change
> its contents without actually editing it?
>   Well, that's of course just impossible. You have to modify *something*
> in the .pov file if you want to be able to control its behaviour from
> outside.
>
>   The bare minimun addition you have to make into the .pov file is to
> add an #include line which includes a secondary .inc file, one which
> you can modify at will (assuming that for whatever reason you can't
> modify the original .pov file any more than that).
>
>   If you absolutely *can't* modify the original .pov file, then it's just
> not possible.
>
> --
>                                                           - Warp




Stephen


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