Folks,

I would appreciate it if some of you could sanity-check the RC5
windows installer, which may be found here:

  http://www.povray.org/beta/povwin-3.7.RC5-setup.exe

Please advise if you have any installation issues.

-- Chris

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Installation successful. No issues met.

Thomas

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in news:4f59d1d0$1@news.povray.org Chris Cason wrote:

Chris,

at the end of the installation process, just after the tow icons appear on 
the desktop I moved the installerwindow out of the way. That froze the 
win7 GUI. Could move the mouse, but not over the task bar, it stopped just 
above. Only a few times right clicking on the desktop "relesed" the freeze 
and I was able to finish the process. I could not reproduce it a second 
time,


ingo

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#include "colors.inc"

No comments after a successful installation on my
laptor Acer (Pentium Dual Core T4400) running w7-64bits)


regards
B. Gimeno

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Chris Cason <del### [at] deletethistoopovrayorg> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I would appreciate it if some of you could sanity-check the RC5
> windows installer, which may be found here:
>
>   http://www.povray.org/beta/povwin-3.7.RC5-setup.exe
>
> Please advise if you have any installation issues.
>
> -- Chris

No problem for me.

Bruno

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Chris
Same issue with installing as RC4 on XP64 sp2 (no sp3 available).
Probally to do with the certification

greetings
Bert

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> I would appreciate it if some of you could sanity-check the RC5
> windows installer, which may be found here:

Installed successfully on Windows 7 x64.

Note that I tried running it without elevation to see what
would happen and got the elevation dialog. Does this mean a
per-user install is no longer supported? Personally I don't
mind but based on previous posts some people do.

Two minor issues:

- The name of the desktop icon is quite long and the version number
   got truncated (...). As the "for Windows" part is rather redundant
   on a Windows desktop I'd suggest to just use "POV-Ray v3.7 RC5".

- It seems the help index has been fixed, but by chance the first
   item I tried was "pigment_pattern" (with underscore), and this mapped
   to the documentation for "pavement".

Regards,

   Christian

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>> I would appreciate it if some of you could sanity-check the RC5
>> windows installer, which may be found here:
>
> Installed successfully on Windows 7 x64.
>
> Note that I tried running it without elevation to see what
> would happen and got the elevation dialog. Does this mean a
> per-user install is no longer supported? Personally I don't
> mind but based on previous posts some people do.
>
> Two minor issues:
>
> - The name of the desktop icon is quite long and the version number
> got truncated (...). As the "for Windows" part is rather redundant
> on a Windows desktop I'd suggest to just use "POV-Ray v3.7 RC5".
>
> - It seems the help index has been fixed, but by chance the first
> item I tried was "pigment_pattern" (with underscore), and this mapped
> to the documentation for "pavement".
>
> Regards,
>
> Christian

For the name of the icon, I think that only "POV-Ray v3.7 RC" would be 
enough.
A test should be made for the partial name "POV-Ray v3.7", and if found, 
only update that shortcut, or replace it. I have the habit of shortening 
and simplifying to long icon's names, and get duplicates.

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Chris Cason wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I would appreciate it if some of you could sanity-check the RC5
> windows installer, which may be found here:
>
>   http://www.povray.org/beta/povwin-3.7.RC5-setup.exe
>
> Please advise if you have any installation issues.
>
> -- Chris

Hello,

I have a problem with registering .pov-files to the right POV-Ray application.
Namely, when I double-click on a .pov-file, it opens in the 32-bit POV-Ray
application (pvengine.exe). My operating system is Windows 7 Home premium
64-bit. I cannot change that association to the 64-bit application
(pvengine64.exe) because my Windows doesn't accept opening the file in that when
I use the command "Open with..". Only pvengine.exe becomes an application in the
list of suitable applications.

I can drag and drop .pov-files to the editor if it's already open, but not if
only the Messages-tab is open.

RC4 registered the file types correctly. I uninstalled that before installing
RC5.

-Mika

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Chris Cason <del### [at] deletethistoopovrayorg> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I would appreciate it if some of you could sanity-check the RC5
> windows installer, which may be found here:
>
>   http://www.povray.org/beta/povwin-3.7.RC5-setup.exe
>
> Please advise if you have any installation issues.
>
> -- Chris

Hello,

I have a problem with registering .pov-files to the right POV-Ray application.
Namely, when I double-click on a .pov-file, it opens in the 32-bit POV-Ray
application (pvengine.exe). My operating system is Windows 7 Home premium
64-bit. I cannot change that association to the 64-bit application
(pvengine64.exe) because my Windows doesn't accept opening the file in that when
I use the command "Open with..". Only pvengine.exe becomes an application in the
list of suitable applications.

I can drag and drop .pov-files to the editor if it's already open, but not if
only the Messages-tab is open.

RC4 registered the file types correctly. I uninstalled that before installing
RC5.

-Mika

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