1. The keep single instance option works, but, according to the docs, 
when double-clicking a file in explorer that file should be opened in 
the instance that is already running. currently the running instance is 
just brought into the foreground. This has been around since 3.1 & I 
think 3.0.

2. Little annoyance - the show whitespace option: in POVWin 3.1 the 
whitespace symbols were a dot in place of spaces and a symbol that looks 
like two greater than signs >>.
In 3.5 the symbols are totally different and frankly they s**k. This may 
not be a bug but it should still be changed IMHO.

+1 Nitpick:
In anims & also sometimes in stills it would be nice to have the new 
frame paint over the old one in the render window.

Bye,
Pabs

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Pabs wrote:

> +1 Nitpick:
> In anims & also sometimes in stills it would be nice to have the new 
> frame paint over the old one in the render window.


I guess it could be usefull to watch an animation run in 
super-slow-motion like that, but I prefer the current checkered 
background as it's easier to see exactly what pixels are currently being 
rendered.  If this gets implemented, I'd like it to be configurable.

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Pabs wrote in message <3C0### [at] NOzSiPpAMto>...
>1. The keep single instance option works, but, according to the docs,
>when double-clicking a file in explorer that file should be opened in
>the instance that is already running. currently the running instance is
>just brought into the foreground. This has been around since 3.1 & I
>think 3.0.


Do you have 32 files open in the editor already?

>+1 Nitpick:
>In anims & also sometimes in stills it would be nice to have the new
>frame paint over the old one in the render window.


See beta 8.

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Mark

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Wasn't it Mark Wagner who wrote:

>>+1 Nitpick:
>>In anims & also sometimes in stills it would be nice to have the new
>>frame paint over the old one in the render window.
>
>
>See beta 8.

How about doing the same for queued renders as well?

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"Pabs" <NOp### [at] NOzSiPpAMto> wrote in message
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> 1. The keep single instance option works, but, according to the docs,
> when double-clicking a file in explorer that file should be opened in
> the instance that is already running. currently the running instance is
> just brought into the foreground. This has been around since 3.1 & I
> think 3.0.

I think it works too well. Keep single instance is turned off but I can't
start a new instance of Pov either by double-clicking a file, the Pov
short-cut or even the pvengine.exe. Every time the currently runnig pops up.
Turing it on doesn't change anything.. and all I wanted to do was play
around while something big was cooking.. :(

Ari-Matti

Using: Athlon, 512Mb, WinXp, Pov3.5b8.icl

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