POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.beta-test : (beta 2) Random crashes on syntax errors : Re: (beta 2) Random crashes on syntax errors Server Time
29 Jul 2024 04:25:36 EDT (-0400)
  Re: (beta 2) Random crashes on syntax errors  
From: Lance Birch
Date: 19 Apr 2005 06:36:13
Message: <4264df1d@news.povray.org>
"Chris Cason" <nos### [at] deletethispovrayorg> wrote in message
news:4264d271@news.povray.org...
> Warp wrote:
> >   I'm getting random crashes when there's a syntax error. Just start
> > povray, create a new file, write some garbage and try to render: It will
> > most probably crash. If it doesn't, close povray, restart it and render.
> > (Often if you modify the file, save and render then it will not crash,
> > but if you close povray, restart it and then render it will.)
> >   Is anyone else getting this?
>
> Thanks for the report, I have fixed this (or at least one cause of it). I
> have put a file up temporarily at http://www.povray.org/beta/temp.zip so you
> can test it (I will delete this in a day or so).

This seems to have fixed the problem in the scenes I was trying.  It now
correctly stops at, and highlights, the syntax error instead of crashing.

Lance.

thezone - thezone.firewave.com.au


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