The GUI idea is an interesting one I think because I've often thought what
it might be like if POV-Ray had at least a graphical Insert Menu (of
Windows version anyway). You know, just click on a button and drop into
the text editor the particular choice. Plus customization of those said
buttons in a way similar to any popular paint program, where you could
have a set of parameters already such as scale and orientation/location.
Lets say you click on Cone and drag that to a spot in the file. Either
leave it as default (already preset by you earlier) or right-click the
Cone button and get a dialog for changing the possible values. And of
course this and others would all need to be in categories and
subcategories to fit into the GUI "toolbars" window. Especially good would
be some kind of smart placement feature of things like CSG keywords and
their wrapping braces about a group of shapes. Same goes for texture,
interior, media going into a shape or object without the need to manually
place the text.
Well, time to cease the daydreaming for now I guess.


Timothy Farley wrote:
> 
> I also would like to see a better GUI built, just for use with POV-Ray
> extensions, I am not much of a Programmer, and definately not a Windows
> programmer, but it would be really nice to use POV-Ray from within a nice
> looking GUI, like VC++ or VB. WHat do you all think?
> 
> Thanks for all your input, please respond by mail also.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> - Tim -

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