>When I build it, there's an ugly dark horizontal line across the 
>message window background at regular intervals.  It looks like the

I didn't get that (I did test the VC5 compile, though it says I didn't).

>I notice in the comments that the splash screen now requires your
>copyright message.  I'm neither for nor against this; I just thought
>it was worth singling out so everyone knows about it.  It might

It makes sense to do that - there's little point in having someone else's
copyright in a splash screen without our own.

>help, too, to put the exact text of the copyright message into
>the readme file so we know exactly what we're expected to include.

Well, I kinda of left it up to the implementors common sense. Something like
'based on POV-Ray for Windows v3.1a (c) 1998 POV-Team' would do.

>beta... I overlooked it.)  I'm curious, though, why the message 
>from optout.h wasn't sufficient.

If you're referring to the 'UNOFFICIALCOMPILE' define, that's not new. It's
been there for at least two years (to my recollection). It's certainly in the
3.01 source.

>Other patchers should note, too, that there's a difference between 
>this version and the 3.0x version: the editor DLLs apparently must 
>be in the directory the executable was started from rather than in
>the 'home' directory as on 3.0x.

Not so. They must be in the 'bin' directory underneath the POV-Ray install dir.
The location of the install dir is obtained from the INI file and is not
dependent on where you run the EXE from. This is basically the same scheme as
3.0x.

If you want to put them (the DLL's) somewhere else, #define DEVELOPMENT in
pvengine.c, and/or look at line 4886 and modify to suit.

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