POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.bugreports : Problem with file locations in 3.7 Win32 : Re: Problem with file locations in 3.7 Win32 Server Time
15 May 2024 11:34:45 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Problem with file locations in 3.7 Win32  
From: clipka
Date: 28 Mar 2009 21:30:00
Message: <web.49cece2177939eb1990f413d0@news.povray.org>
"Linulo" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> Cause:
> Search path for povray.ini hardcoded, installer file location choice ignored.
>
> Fix:
> On startup, check for existence of a registry key for the current user. If it is
> present, read support file location from it. Otherwise let the user choose his
> support file location, copy the povray.ini to this location and set the
> registry entry for this user.

Hmm... I see code in the POV 3.7 source that seems to be designed to already do
something this. Should be possible to invoke it with "povray /INSTALL", or
"povray /INSTALL <installdir>", so maybe you want to give it a try.


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