In article <3dab1246@news.povray.org>,
 "Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:

> Well, for a GUI the stuff that is available as part of Mozilla looks very
> interesting.  Maybe increasing the level of abstraction and then just
> running POV-Ray as a backend to a webbrowser might be sufficient.  After
> all, there are plenty of editors out there, so no need for a dedicated
> GUI...

Maybe a plugin for jEdit...it seems to be a pretty good code editor, and 
it already has syntax coloring for POV. It'd just need to show rendering 
progress, error/status/info messages, and provide a render button/menu 
item. Making people download and install a separate Java program would 
be seen as pretty unfriendly, but I think jEdit would be better for this 
than Mozilla.

jEdit is a good example of what I was saying in the other messages 
though...it is a good program with a UI that will look familiar to 
someone on Windows, but it breaks a lot of Mac conventions. It even uses 
Aqua interface elements, but there is no way you could mistake it for a 
native Mac OS X program.

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