POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Standalone editor & parser? : Re: Standalone editor & parser? Server Time
26 Apr 2024 02:00:20 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Standalone editor & parser?  
From: jhu
Date: 24 Oct 2017 01:55:00
Message: <web.59eed4b0e089fcd9194284cc0@news.povray.org>
"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
>
> > Do you want the Windows GUI and parser without the render engine? What
> > good would that be?
>
> I'd be able to write SDL on any computer I was sitting at, and check for proper
> syntax and other errors without having to install POV-Ray on every box I used.
>
> Color coded contextual highlighting is nice (I will check out VIM), but the
> parser is really the thing that tells me if something's going to even GET TO the
> render phase without choking on a missing include file, a missing ) or }, an
> undeclared variable, etc.
>
> It was just an idea for something useful, if it was simple enough to do.
>
> A dream in a longer, narrower pipe would be to have an online editor / parser
> that could be used in a browser...

You can already run the Windows Povray version off a USB stick.


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