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From: Howard Kern
Subject: Pov won't let me do anything
Date: 21 Jan 2004 16:17:06
Message: <400eec52@news.povray.org>
I'm running 10.3 (w/o an OS 9 system folder, so no classic)  Pov-Ray 
opens and renders fine (and, mysteriously, I am not affected by the bug 
that caused POV-Ray to crash when oppening files).  The problem is, 
baisically, that it won't let me do anything.

All the menu options associated with individual files (i.e. "render 
settings," or the render option itself) are greyed-out and innacesable. 
  I can render fine using the que, I suppose, but I really need to 
change my render settings...


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From: Thorsten Froehlich
Subject: Re: Pov won't let me do anything
Date: 21 Jan 2004 17:09:38
Message: <400ef8a2@news.povray.org>
In article <400eec52@news.povray.org> , Howard Kern <how### [at] hotmailcom>
wrote:

> I'm running 10.3 (w/o an OS 9 system folder, so no classic)  Pov-Ray
> opens and renders fine (and, mysteriously, I am not affected by the bug
> that caused POV-Ray to crash when oppening files).  The problem is,
> baisically, that it won't let me do anything.

Well, as is clearly said on the download page, if you use Mac OS X you
should *not* use build 173.  If you do, and have problems, don't expect
anybody to be able to help you...

    Thorsten

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From: Howard Kern
Subject: Re: Pov won't let me do anything
Date: 21 Jan 2004 23:26:27
Message: <400f50f3$1@news.povray.org>
It does it with every build, I've tried the original, the 3.6 beta and 
3.5 RC1.  It's the same every time.


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From: Thorsten Froehlich
Subject: Re: Pov won't let me do anything
Date: 22 Jan 2004 06:13:31
Message: <400fb05b$1@news.povray.org>
"Howard Kern" <how### [at] hotmailcom> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:400f50f3$1@news.povray.org...
> It does it with every build, I've tried the original, the 3.6 beta and
> 3.5 RC1.  It's the same every time.

What is the file extension of your files?

    Thorsten


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From: Howard Kern
Subject: Re: Pov won't let me do anything
Date: 22 Jan 2004 14:39:55
Message: <4010270b$1@news.povray.org>
There wasn't one.

Well, I'm an idiot.  Sorry to take up your time.


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From: Thorsten Froehlich
Subject: Re: Pov won't let me do anything
Date: 23 Jan 2004 12:36:52
Message: <40115bb4$1@news.povray.org>
In article <4010270b$1@news.povray.org> , Howard Kern <how### [at] hotmailcom>
wrote:

> There wasn't one.
>
> Well, I'm an idiot.  Sorry to take up your time.

There is a switch in the preferences.  Usually you only want to render files
with the extension ".pov", so I think that is enabled by default.  Turn it
off, and you can just render any file.  Of course, watch out to not "render"
a large include file by accident.  POV-Ray will happily parse it but you
will just get a black picture...

    Thorsten

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