POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.programming : Re: A portable POV-Ray graphical interface? : Re: A portable POV-Ray graphical interface? Server Time
29 Jul 2024 12:23:44 EDT (-0400)
  Re: A portable POV-Ray graphical interface?  
From: Roland Mas
Date: 7 Sep 1998 00:09:06
Message: <m3lnnwmxe6.fsf@rpc66.acr.atr.co.jp>
"Thorsten Froehlich" <fro### [at] charliecnsiitedu> writes:

> He is refering to the last paragraph:
> 
> =>To allow POV-Ray to interface with outside programs, the official
> =>versions of POV-Ray include several "hooks" for it to call other
> =>tasks.  For example: the generic part of POV-Ray provides
> =>operating system shell-out commands. The Windows version has GUI-
> =>extension hooks and the ability to replace the text editor.
> =>Modification to these hooks or other officially supported
> =>interface mechanisms to increase functionality beyond that of the
> =>official version IS EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED.
> 
> How do you read it?

  Aow, that hurts... Anyway, that means I was going to be a complete
outlaw. If I may ask, why such a limitation?

> I posted it in povray.binaries.programming as "POVLEGAL.DOC for
> POV-Ray 3.1"

  I seem to have missed it (I don't read p.b.programming really often).
Sorry again,

Roland.

-- 
Les francophones m'appellent Roland Mas,
English speakers call me Rowlannd' Mass,
Nihongode hanasu hitoha [Lolando Masu] to iimasu.
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