"Jon Berndt" <jsb### [at] hal-pcorg> wrote:
>After a cursory examination of the new code generation features of POV-Ray
>3.1, I am pleased with the way things have been rearranged. It appears to me
>that one can now customize how the "Insert" menu works (is that true?). If
>it is, it seems to me that one way to add some capability to the IDE is now
>easier, because it is no big deal to write an application which pops up a
>custom dialog to enter information and then to write it to a file (maybe to
>a file which is present in the "Insert" menu structure). Then the question
>comes to mind: is it then possible to command the IDE to insert the code
>which was just written to a file? Can a menu item be selected
>programmatically without much trouble, via DDE, OLE, or some other
>interface? And can the code in the currently active buffer be parsed and
>modified under program control?

Actually, you could customize the insert menu (the one that inserts scene templates)
long before, the file format was documented years ago, originally on the Mac :-)


    Thorsten


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Thorsten Froehlich, Duisburg, Germany

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