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From: Anthony D  Baye
Subject: Re: next feature, please...
Date: 1 Aug 2013 18:15:01
Message: <web.51fadc14d6d33074328783aa0@news.povray.org>
clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> I guess this image doesn't need too much explanation. Another feature to
> be included in that branch of mine.

yes, please.

I can see a number of uses for the ability to parse plain-text in povray,
beginning with a procedural texture for rendering text to monitors on computers,
which would free you of the burden of making a properly formatted and scaled
image map, and allow greater freedom with the screen texture.

what I'd like to see is the ability to specify an optional delimiter in read(),
but I suppose you could always just read in a line and break it on your own
criteria later.

What's the word on the new SDL?  Or will there be one?

Regards,

A.D.B.


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From: clipka
Subject: Re: next feature, please...
Date: 1 Aug 2013 21:48:39
Message: <51fb0ff7$1@news.povray.org>
Am 02.08.2013 00:07, schrieb Anthony D. Baye:

> What's the word on the new SDL?  Or will there be one?

It is high on the agenda; some thoughts have already been invested into 
the architecture behind it (such as, what virtual machine to use, or 
what framework to use to implement the parser), and there are a number 
of requirements floating around for the new language; but actual 
implementation will not start before 3.7.0 is out the door.


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From: Christian Froeschlin
Subject: Re: next feature, please...
Date: 2 Aug 2013 11:04:56
Message: <51fbca98$1@news.povray.org>
clipka wrote:

> I guess this image doesn't need too much explanation. Another feature to 
> be included in that branch of mine.

It is cool to be able to read arbitrary files! But it probably
requires some "sscanf"-like functionality as well to be really useful
(except simply rendering text such as book pages, newspapers, ...)


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