Hello,

I wanted to inform the ray tracing community of a change in website
address.  My ISP decided to change their domain name from computek to
cmpu.  No doubt they have a reasonable explanation; it simply eludes
me.  The new address is for the POV-Motif website is:

http://www.cmpu.net/public/wdh/pov_motif

POV-Motif is a UNIX/X/Motif front end application for POV-Ray. 
POV-Motif resembles the Windows version of POV-Ray, and brings editing,
POV-Ray command line settings, and POV-Ray rendering into a single user
interface.  POV-Motif binaries are statically linked with the Motif
libraries precluding the need for you to have Motif on your system.  

POV-Motif binaries are available for Solaris and Linux/x86/ELF.  Source
code is also available for download.  Of course, POV-Motif is freeware.

Give it a try!


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William D. Hayden

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>Hello,
>POV-Motif is a UNIX/X/Motif front end application for POV-Ray. 
>POV-Motif binaries are statically linked with the Motif
>libraries precluding the need for you to have Motif on your system.  
>POV-Motif binaries are available for Solaris and Linux/x86/ELF.  Source
>code is also available for download.  Of course, POV-Motif is freeware.
If I want to compile it for Linux 68k I'll face some problems or not?
I.e.: I'll need Motif?

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Redaelli,

You will indeed need Motif if you want to port to Linux 68K.  I bought
mine from Red Hat for $150 US.  I don't know what that is in Lira. 
There is a freeware product called Lesstif (www.lesstif.org) that
emulates the Motif API.  It isn't finished yet, and failed miserably on
POV-Motif.  It also failed to properly run anything of mine but the most
rudimentary applications.  Still, that was 9 months ago.  It may be
better now.

As for the port to Linux itself, I had little trouble with it. 
POV-Motif has been successfully compiled on Solaris, SunOS, HP/UX, and
Linux.  Amazing what POSIX/SVR5/X/Motif compliance will do.  Getting the
makefile to find everything and supporting the static link were the only
real problems.

If you do manage to get a port, send me the executable so I can post it
on the website.

Thanks for your interest in POV-Motif.

Regards,

Redaelli Paolo wrote:
> 
> >Hello,
> >POV-Motif is a UNIX/X/Motif front end application for POV-Ray.
> >POV-Motif binaries are statically linked with the Motif
> >libraries precluding the need for you to have Motif on your system.
> >POV-Motif binaries are available for Solaris and Linux/x86/ELF.  Source
> >code is also available for download.  Of course, POV-Motif is freeware.
> If I want to compile it for Linux 68k I'll face some problems or not?
> I.e.: I'll need Motif?
> 
>  ___________________________________________________________________
> / Redaelli Paolo EMail: red### [at] incit | Known as Tybor on #Amiga, \
> | POV-Team Amiga                        | #AmIrc and #AmigaIta      |
> | Porter of AmiForge, GForge, Lparser   \---------------------------+
> | Fantasy home page: http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Vault/4950     |
> \___________________________________________________________________/

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William D. Hayden

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