POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.macintosh : Render POVray file from Applescript : Re: Render POVray file from Applescript Server Time
28 Apr 2024 00:02:29 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Render POVray file from Applescript  
From: Martin Crisp
Date: 5 Mar 2003 22:00:11
Message: <web.3e66b8d6144a413b50812eff0@news.povray.org>
Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
>In article <0001HW.BA8BC04F000AABCDF0284600[at]news.povray.org> , Martin Crisp
><Spa### [at] tesseractcomau>  wrote:
>
>> I'm running OS X, but this should still apply to 9.2.2...
>>
>> You can't, directly.
><snip>
>> To find out what AppleScript support POV-Ray has, use the Script
>> Editor's file menu "Open Dictionary" item and select POV-Ray.
>> You'll see there is no 'render' command.
>
>You can.

D'oh! Correction much appreciated.

>Many commands are just not in the dictionary due to lack of time.
>Nevertheless, the whole application is recordable.  Thus, recording the
>desired action will yield the (I have to admit cryptic) AppleScript code
>that will do the job.

I'll have a look...

[btw: any hints on how to convince OS X to include POV-Ray's help in the
"Help Centre"? I can navigate to it but...]

Have Fun
Martin


Post a reply to this message

Copyright 2003-2023 Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd.