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13 Aug 2026 03:02:56 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Bug in MegaPOVPlus 0.3 [ Re: MegaPOVPlus 0.3 released(with glow effect)]  
From: Chris Huff
Date: 7 Sep 2000 16:30:25
Message: <chrishuff-E87970.15320907092000@news.povray.org>
In article <1egls4q.yh03fo16qs2ccN%smellenbergh@skynet.be>, 
sme### [at] skynetbe (smellenbergh) wrote:

> Could you please try to set only one (or as less as possible) group as
> 'followup' when you post a message? Just like I did now? 
> Your original posting is very difficult to track because different
> messages are in various groups.

I will do that for future posts. I have just started to use those 
features, and haven't gotten used to them yet...


> Just tried that patch but the glow stuff doesn't work. 
> Well, it does work but when finishing a render Pov crashes.
> I wonder why nobody else had this problem. Ok, I did make my own compile
> based on my unofficial GUI and perhaps coincidence has its role too.

Bugs from pointer mis-use are often very erratic...it just doesn't show 
up very often, I guess.


> Bugfix:
> in glow.c, fucntion Destroy_Glow_List () could be changed like this:
...snip...
> You were using memory that was already freed!

You are quite right! I can't believe I missed that one...it will be 
fixed in the next version, along with a couple other bugs.

-- 
Christopher James Huff
Personal: chr### [at] maccom, http://homepage.mac.com/chrishuff/
TAG: chr### [at] tagpovrayorg, http://tag.povray.org/

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