On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 2:16:08 +1100, ronald visschers wrote
(in message <3E0### [at] xs4allnl>):

[top-post moved]
 
> Martin Crisp wrote:
>> On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 7:55:38 +1100, Dale Walsh wrote
>> (in message <3E0### [at] mailmcgillca>):
>> 
>>> Let me say this again.  The render progress window with the 
>>> candy cane thing stays open. The candy cane thing just keeps 
>>> spiralling, it lists no objects, no parse time, no render 
>>> time, etc.  I have to quit program to make it stop.  G4, OS 
>>> 9.2.2, Carbon Lib 1.6, lots of ram, rendering a simple scene 
>>> from Scenes Folder.  What am I doing wrong? 
>> 
>> That's what it was doing for me, until I turned on 'preemptive 
>> threading' in the first pane of the preferences.
>> 
>> Which you can't see until you go to that pane with the option key 
>> held down. [And you need to then quit and re-launch POV for it to 
>> take effect]

> Same problem here on my iMac revB running sys 9.2. I downloaded 
> povray version 3.5 to take up some rendering projects after a 
> year or so. Is there a quick fix for this problem ? 

Only the above, AFAIK, i.e:

Edit menu-> Application Preferences -> some tab other than 
'General' -> Hold down the option key and choose the 'General' tab 
-> Turn on 'preemptive threading' -> close the prefs window -> quit 
POV-Ray -> Re-launch POV-Ray.



Have Fun
Martin
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