"Can" <can### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> Alain <ele### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> > Can nous illumina en ce 2008-08-11 10:07 -->
> > > Hi;
> > > I have an executable file which takes some arguments, create a .pov file, render
> > > it and then save it as bmp. I'm calling this executable file from another code
> > > written in csharp. I want the povray program not to be seen when the code calls
> > > it, just run on the background.
> > >
> > > In my executable file's source code, the command "povray" was used. After i
> > > installed povray, i saw the program has not "povray.exe" but "pvengine.exe". I
> > > changed povrays into pvengines, then compiled again I could be able to run it,
> > > but i had the problem.
> > >
> > > What can i do? Can i find the povray.exe file? Can it solve my problem?
> > >
> > > p.s. : The executable file is too old, so the version of povray.exe file is not
> > > important.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > Start POV-Ray minimised, and set to only run one instance, and don't terminate

> > it after the first render. You don't need to save the image yourself as POV-Ray
> > does it itself. Unless you set it otherwize, the output format under Windows
> > default to BMP.
> > You may first start POV-Ray, dismiss the splash, minimize it, then start your
> > application.
> >
> > Go to Options|Keep Single Instance and make sure it's checked.
> >
> > --
> > Alain
> > -------------------------------------------------
> > HAMMER:  Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as
> > a kind of divining rod to locate expensive bike parts not far from the object we
> > are trying to hit.
>
>
>
> Thank you very much Alain. Your solution is artful, but actually it doesn't
> block the running of GUI of Povray, just hides it.
>
> I solved it in another way.
>
> I installed cygwin. Then i downloaded unix source file of POV-Ray and compiled
> it by cygwin. It created the povray.exe which has not any GUI. Then i found two
> required dll file on Internet: cygwin1.dll and cygz.dll. I copied them into the
> same folder with the povray.exe. So the povray.exe now works on Windows XP
> without any GUI.
>
> I seems a bit complicated but completely solves the problem. It doesn't require
> advanced Unix knowledge because read_me file of the source code shows the Unix
> codes required for installing POVRAY.


Hello, Can.
I would greatly appreciate if you could send to me povray.exe as an attachment
to an email.
This way I would save a lot of work, and I don't need to install cygwin,
compile,...
My email address is: lui### [at] gmailcom
Thanks in advance
Luigi

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