> Hello Lutz,
> I'm curious, when you say there is no more 3rd party libraries in the
> code, do you mean the gui of this new moray only uses the windows gui
> interface or is it cross platform (like unix for example) ? For example,
> the well known libraries 'wxWidgets' and 'Qt' are both cross platform
> but they are considered as 3rd party libraries... Can you provide more
> explanations about the dependencies (OS compatibility, etc...) of the
> new Moray ?
> Regards,
> Antoine.

Moray is Windows only. When we donated it to the POV-Team it was using some 3rd
party commercial UI libraries that prevented the POV-Team from releasing it
under their license. Some work was done to replace it, but not released. In the
meantime we needed it to also be x64. That work was started but never completed.
And finally, Moray did not support the new way POV-Ray supports GUI integration
(as a VFE server), nor was it compatible with V3.8. I fixed all those issues. So
the result is a Windows x64 build that is compatible with POV-Ray 3.8 (though it
does not support new features that were added post V3.5 yet), renders previews
inside Moray, uses no 3rd party commercial libraries (there is still zlib,
pnglib) that runs fine on modern Win10 and Win11 systems. It still has strong
dependencies on the Microsoft MFC libraries, so cross platform is not on the
table.

Lutz

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