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2 Sep 2024 04:14:28 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Persistent Variables - Help!  
From: Michael Andrews
Date: 12 Jun 2000 13:37:46
Message: <39451FEA.303327D1@reading.ac.uk>
smellenbergh wrote:
> 
> Michael Andrews <M.C### [at] readingacuk> wrote:
> 
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I'm trying to implement the falling cloth idea to do an animation. I
> > thought, to make things easier, I'd investigate persistent variables.
> > Unfortunately I must be missing something.
> >
> Look no further, it's a bug introduced in 0.5a.

Whew! That's a relief, I thought I was being even more stupid than
normal ...

> 
> If you have access to a compiler and the sources you can fix it by
> moving this block of code at line 1695 in povray.c in function
> init_frame_vars():
> 
>   /* NK persist - Nov 1999 */
>   alreadyInitializedSymTables = 0;
>   /* ---- */
> to the function init_vars(), also in povray.c, doesn't matter where.

Has anyone figured out all the necessaries for building the GUI Megapov
version using the Cygnus or Mingw32 compilers? I haven't heard anything
recently but I recall that a couple fo people were working on this a
while back. I was going to try myself, but others seemed to be further
along than me so I left them to it ... 

> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Smellenbergh
> 
> --
> e-mail:sme### [at] skynetbe
> 
> http://users.skynet.be/smellenbergh

Thanks for the reply,
	Mike Andrews.


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