Sometimes, when I close the render window, the POV-Ray window becomes minimized.
Brendan Ryan

Remco de Korte wrote:

> I know it's my own stupid fault and yet...
>
> I've lost hours, if not days of work by some peculiarities of the
> Windows-version of POV-Ray. First: if you load or saev a file from the editor
> the program sometimes looses focus. Another program that's running will suddenly
> come on top. I often run more then one instance of POV-Ray to do some tests in
> the background (it's even worse then that but that's not the point now). So,
> every once in a while I end up with another POV-window in front of me without
> noticing it right away. That's confusing, especially if a scene I was working on
> suddenly seems to be rendering (or not) while I didn't expect it too. So I take
> the appropriate (miss)steps.
> Second: I truely wish POV-Ray, or at least the Windows version, would support
> long filenames in the output of animations. I'd like to give my scenes more or
> less meaningfull names, with a trailing letter or number to identify the
> version. On rendering it as an animation POV-Ray truncates the name (without
> prompting) and overwrites any previous version. I've had that happen more then
> once now, often enough to write this message.
> Please understand: I'm just whining, while I think POV-Ray is the best there
> ever was when it comes to software. I use it intensely (intensively?) and not
> (anymore) just because it's free. I'm no C-programmer, otherwise I would have
> tried to patch these things. BTW: is there a patch that solves this? Does the
> SuperPatch? I have it downloaded but still didn't come round to trying it (too
> busy with the original :)).
>
> Regards,
>
> Remco

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