I was hoping not to have to muck around in the source code, but there's no way
to turn off the banner messages without doing so (even on the unix versions). Oh
well.


"Tim Attwood" <tim### [at] comcastnet> wrote:
> >I was considering writing a webserver, except I don't know how to suppress
> >all
> > the text that scrolls by upon program launch.
>
> You would need to find a version of POV compiled
> with the splash removed to suppress all the windows on
> your server... I think the Linux version is that way.
> For the windows version you could do (from CMD)...
>
> pvengine /EXIT +I"file.pov" -d -ga +W640 +H480
>
> where -d turns off the render preview window,
> and -ga turns off the output to the message window,
>
> and set the Options | Other Settings | Use Editor to
> off from inside POV to keep the editor from loading
>
> but the splash screen and message startup will still show.
>
> Of course you could set up a virtual PC and allow it
> to pop up whatever it wants, since you can hide everthing
> anyways. Crashes would be less likely to change anything
> important then too.
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx

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