Tero Kukola wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Motivation:
> I have a set of GUI components done with POV-Ray. That is, a few pov-files
> which are parametrized by macros and declarations from include files. I just
> edit one file and run a shell script (Cygwin, bash) to create textures.
> While the script is executed a set of settings files (.inc) are cycled by
> the script to change the global settings (to produce base textures, nice
> faded alpha masks etc).
> 
> Solution:
> I would be nice if I could:
> * pass include files as command line parameters
> * pass declarations as command line parameters
> * ...and maybe put includes and declarations to ini-files

Declarations via command line/ini file are possible with Povray 3.5. 
Including files is not, but i don't think that would be necessary since
you can use #if for conditional includes.

> 
> Nitpicking department:
> I use version "3.1g.watcom.win32" with the scripts and it is a bit of pain
> in the ass...the window is always created, no messages to stdout/stderr and
> you need that evil "/exit" parameter. I just learned about this promising
> Cygwin-version someone has created. Anyway, I think there should be a proper
> and pure command line version available for 32-bit Windozes (you know, long
> filenames, no memory issues, compared to ms-dos version).

There is no problem with long filenames and memory with the cygwin
version.  The only problem is speed, but that's nothing that seems to
bother you. ;-)

Christoph

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