Ok, I took the time to read more about the problem and it seem to be a
common one with MacOS 9 (9.1 here).  I will probably download a copy of
Povray 3.1g, though I wonder if MegaPOV has the sphere sweep I'm
interested in! ;)

Thanks anyway!
  Simon


I wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>   I just downloaded POV-Ray 3.5 for the Mac and tried to render a very
> simple scene (sphere lit by light).  I tried this on a iBook and an old
> PPC with same results.  When I start the render, everything goes fine
> and the RenderQueue opens saying the render is being done and another
> window opens with the image slowly appearing (as it should be!).  But at
> the end...  when the image is finished and everything seems alright, I
> close the render window, and looking at the render queue, I see the
> render is not yet completed, actually the render queue does not seem to
> know how much it is completed, it displays a dumb progress bar (//  //
> //  //) instead of the usual progess bar (||||||||----).  I click the
> render and try to make it stop, but nothing happens...
> 
>   Actually, I have to force quit Povray and reload it in order to render
> my scene again, and all this just to tweek the color of the sphere!
> 
>   Has anyone had this kind of trouble before?  How could I get the
> render to work and finish properly?
> 
> Thanks,
>   Simon

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