POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.windows: What is a "GUI-Extension", and where can I get one?: Re: What is a "GUI-Extension", and where can I get one?

POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.windows : What is a "GUI-Extension", and where can I get one? : Re: What is a "GUI-Extension", and where can I get one?		Server Time 28 Jul 2024 20:30:13 EDT (-0400)

From: Pan
Date: 9 Nov 1997 14:29:05
Message: <34661cce.0@news.povray.org>

Jon S. Berndt wrote in message <3465C6C7.14DB1D37@hal-pc.org>...
|Twyst wrote:
|> 
|> Pov-Win has a menu that says GUI-Extensions, but I have never seen
|> one, or
|> even seen any reference to it in the help files...
|> 
|> Any clues?
|
|I am reasonably sure that the GUI-Extensions are capabilities that can
|be added by third party developers. The source code is available in the
|archives. The documentation should be there for how to add your own
|special capabilities to the Windows interface. Probably you would create
|a DLL which conforms to some special set of rules, then somehow register
|that DLL with POV. When you run POV's Windows front-end it would
|recognize this extension and it would show up in the menu under
|GUI-Extensions.
|
|Just a guess.
|
|Jon

 Shortly after Pov 3 was released there was a PovTeam announcement
that a mailing list would be formed for parties interested in writing extensions.
I expressed interest in that but nothing seemed to ever have happened.
Maybe it is something reserved to the Compuserve Forun?

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