Hello,
in bigger projects it is often a good idea to split scene into several 
files. I.e. main.pov in including ufo.inc ground.inc cfg.inc

The problem is - that to render entire image while editing ufo.inc You must 
switch to another window, start rendering, and switch back.

This takes only a few seconds, but since this is repeated realy often 
(especialy when no additional editor is used :) it is annoying.

My suggstion - instead of :
ctrl+tab, alt+g, ctrl+tab
  press just
F5

Editor should have option to select/load active project.

What do You think ?

Ofcourse ther is a work-around for this :
in ufo.inc

  #ifndef (PRJ_LOADED_MAIN)
    #include "main.pov"
  #else
    ... entire ufo.inc scene ...
  #end

and in main.pov

  #declare PRJ_LOADED_MAIN=1;
  #include "ufo.inc"
  //...






-- 
#macro g(U,V)(.4*abs(sin(9*sqrt(pow(x-U,2)+pow(y-V,2))))*pow(1-min(1,(sqrt(
pow(x-U,2)+pow(y-V,2))*.3)),2)+.9)#end#macro p(c)#if(c>1)#local l=mod(c,100
);g(2*div(l,10)-8,2*mod(l,10)-8)*p(div(c,100))#else 1#end#end light_source{
y 2}sphere{z*20 9pigment{function{p(26252423)*p(36455644)*p(66656463)}}}//M

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In emacs it's possible to put a comment at the beginning of a file,
for example a LaTeX file, that when compiling (with latex), don't compile
this file, but the one specified in the comment.
  I wonder if it would be a good idea to add this kind of support to
winpov as well... That is, some special comment at the beginning of the
pov-file would tell povray to not to render this file but the one
specified.

-- 
#macro N(D)#if(D>99)cylinder{M()#local D=div(D,104);M().5,2pigment{rgb M()}}
N(D)#end#end#macro M()<mod(D,13)-6mod(div(D,13)8)-3,10>#end blob{
N(11117333955)N(4254934330)N(3900569407)N(7382340)N(3358)N(970)}//  - Warp -

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I have been thinking about this problem too... Could you use +I in
the little ini window to get round this?

Andrew.
Mmm... maybe next time I should *try* it _before_ posting the msg?
:^|

"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
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>   In emacs it's possible to put a comment at the beginning of a
> file, for example a LaTeX file, that when compiling (with latex),
> don't compile this file, but the one specified in the comment.
>   I wonder if it would be a good idea to add this kind of support
> to winpov as well... That is, some special comment at the beginning
> of the pov-file would tell povray to not to render this file but
> the one
> specified.

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Just went and tried this... If you put a +I switch in the INI box
next to the resolution INI (which they kindly added in 3.5 ;-) it
seems to render the correct file - and output to the right place,
etc. Most helpful!

Andrew.

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