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From: jim
Subject: running povray from another program without bringing up interface
Date: 5 Feb 2003 13:30:04
Message: <web.3e415728adbbce839a1600140@news.povray.org>
could anyone explain to me how I can run povray from an external program so
that povray will "silently" render the picture to a specified folder, but
have it so that the main povray interface does not become visible.

Thanks
Jim


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From: ABX
Subject: Re: running povray from another program without bringing up interface
Date: 5 Feb 2003 13:58:58
Message: <tfn24vkf7ogbmq97p60443fbe7q195epaa@4ax.com>
On Wed,  5 Feb 2003 13:25:44 EST, "jim" <jrj### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> could anyone explain to me how I can run povray from an external program so
> that povray will "silently" render the picture to a specified folder, but
> have it so that the main povray interface does not become visible.

What platform ?

BTW: Do you promise to announce user that POV-Ray is responsible for
rendering? :-)

ABX


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From: Thorsten Froehlich
Subject: Re: running povray from another program without bringing up interface
Date: 5 Feb 2003 14:24:26
Message: <3e4164ea@news.povray.org>
In article <web.3e415728adbbce839a1600140@news.povray.org> , "jim" 
<jrj### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:

> could anyone explain to me how I can run povray from an external program so
> that povray will "silently" render the picture to a specified folder, but
> have it so that the main povray interface does not become visible.

No.  Read the license.  That isn't allowed.

    Thorsten


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From: Harold
Subject: Re: running povray from another program without bringing up interface
Date: 5 Feb 2003 14:52:25
Message: <3e416b79$1@news.povray.org>
Interesting, I've used SPSS, and MS-Visual Basic to create
POV script files and shell out to POV-Ray, but I've never
seen any reason to hide the interface. I do think it is possible
using the command line options, but why bother?

Harolddd

"jim" <jrj### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
news:web.3e415728adbbce839a1600140@news.povray.org...
> could anyone explain to me how I can run povray from an external program
so
> that povray will "silently" render the picture to a specified folder, but
> have it so that the main povray interface does not become visible.
>
> Thanks
> Jim
>


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From: Gilles Tran
Subject: Re: running povray from another program without bringing up interface
Date: 5 Feb 2003 15:02:12
Message: <3e416dc4@news.povray.org>

3e4164ea@news.povray.org...
> No.  Read the license.  That isn't allowed.

Before jumping to conclusions about potential wrongdoings and license
violations, he may have legitimate reasons to do so.
I'm launching POV-Ray from Access to create graphics for the database I'm
running at work. I'm using the DOS version of POV-Ray 3.1 to avoid having
the splash screen pop up every time I create a graphic (I've done 3000 of
them so far). I'm the sole user, so I definitely don't hide to myself the
fact that I'm using POV-Ray ;-)

G.


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From: Timothy R  Cook
Subject: Re: running povray from another program without bringing up interface
Date: 5 Feb 2003 15:04:41
Message: <3e416e59$1@news.povray.org>
...and if Gilles Tran can do it, it's good enough for me. ;)

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From: Christoph Hormann
Subject: Re: running povray from another program without bringing up interface
Date: 5 Feb 2003 15:21:56
Message: <3E417264.A389CF2B@gmx.de>
Gilles Tran wrote:
> 
> Before jumping to conclusions about potential wrongdoings and license
> violations, he may have legitimate reasons to do so.
> I'm launching POV-Ray from Access to create graphics for the database I'm
> running at work. I'm using the DOS version of POV-Ray 3.1 to avoid having
> the splash screen pop up every time I create a graphic (I've done 3000 of
> them so far). I'm the sole user, so I definitely don't hide to myself the
> fact that I'm using POV-Ray ;-)

You probably don't need the new features but you can also use the windows
console version of 3.5 or megapov for that purpose.  

Christoph

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From: Harold
Subject: Re: running povray from another program without bringing up interface
Date: 5 Feb 2003 18:06:43
Message: <3e419903@news.povray.org>
Gilles,
We are probably doing similar things. No doubt your
programing is much better and produces more sophisticated
graphs. I'll post a simple example in p.b.i., I'd be interested in
seeing what you are doing.

Harold

ps. I now work at a County rather than a University. They
will not let me install my own software, and they will not buy
any either. It took two weeks to get permission to install
POV-Ray!!
"Gilles Tran" <git### [at] wanadoofr> wrote in message
news:3e416dc4@news.povray.org...

> 3e4164ea@news.povray.org...
> > No.  Read the license.  That isn't allowed.
>
> Before jumping to conclusions about potential wrongdoings and license
> violations, he may have legitimate reasons to do so.
> I'm launching POV-Ray from Access to create graphics for the database I'm
> running at work. I'm using the DOS version of POV-Ray 3.1 to avoid having
> the splash screen pop up every time I create a graphic (I've done 3000 of
> them so far). I'm the sole user, so I definitely don't hide to myself the
> fact that I'm using POV-Ray ;-)
>
> G.
>
>
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From: Gilles Tran
Subject: Re: running povray from another program without bringing up interface
Date: 5 Feb 2003 19:02:46
Message: <3e41a626@news.povray.org>

3E417264.A389CF2B@gmx.de...
> You probably don't need the new features but you can also use the windows
> console version of 3.5 or megapov for that purpose.

That's what I told someone who asked me the same question ! But yes what I
do is so simple that even POV-Ray 1.0 could do it.

G.


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From: Gilles Tran
Subject: Re: running povray from another program without bringing up interface
Date: 5 Feb 2003 19:14:31
Message: <3e41a8e7@news.povray.org>

3e419903@news.povray.org...
> Gilles,
> We are probably doing similar things. No doubt your
> programing is much better and produces more sophisticated
> graphs. I'll post a simple example in p.b.i., I'd be interested in
> seeing what you are doing.

It's probably the other way round, mine just takes a bunch of x,y points and
draws a scatter plot plus a regression line. These are really crummy
graphics (16 colors, 200x200, blue on white) but they're small, there's a
lot of them and people love them. There's an animated one here
http://www.inapg.inra.fr/dsa/afz/tables_documents.htm (the AVI file called

only appreciated by those who know what it's all about!
Creating the script was a piece of cake. Creating the vb script that
calculates the regression statistics, on the other hand... I spent a week on
it and needed help from the maths/stats department here.

G.


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