POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : The other OS : Re: The other OS Server Time
30 Jul 2024 14:30:01 EDT (-0400)
  Re: The other OS  
From: Darren New
Date: 4 Aug 2011 17:46:26
Message: <4e3b1332@news.povray.org>
On 8/4/2011 12:26, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Does POV-Ray support COM? Is Windows the primary development platform for
> POV-Ray? Exactly.

It doesn't make a whole lot of sense for a batch-processing program to use 
COM for scripting. What would you script that you can't do from the command 
line?

> Does 7zip support COM? How about Firefox? Google Earth? Sketchup?

http://www.adamlock.com/mozilla/   Mozilla COM interface.

http://earth.google.com/comapi/  Google earth COM api. That wasn't even hard 
to find.

http://include.wutils.com/com-dll/constants/constants-SketchUp.htm
Sketchup COM interface.

> None of these are exactly "small" or "obscure" or "primarily for Linux". And
> yet, no COM.

And yet, no google fu. ;-)

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   How come I never get only one kudo?


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