Afternoon, all...

I am calling "pvengine" with required command line options including
/EXIT.  However, after calling/launching PovRay 3.1 for Windows, rendering
the image and writing a BMP file, I cannot seem to return to the calling
program(Perl).  My program requires that I call PovRay a number
of times.  Unfortunately, program control is lost after the first call.
Can anyone help?

Regards...Bob

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On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 15:11:43 -0400, "Bob Rasmussen" <bob### [at] comcastnet>
wrote:
> PovRay 3.1 for Windows

Can't you try it with POV-Ray 3.5 for Windows ? Any support will be easier
then...

ABX

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"ABX" <abx### [at] abxartpl> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 15:11:43 -0400, "Bob Rasmussen" <bob### [at] comcastnet>
> wrote:
> > PovRay 3.1 for Windows
>
> Can't you try it with POV-Ray 3.5 for Windows ? Any support will be easier
> then...
>
> ABX

I was hoping there was a simple command string option that would permit
PovRay to run in the background and return me to the program. Do you
know if such an option is available in 3.5? In the Unix version (PovRay 1.0)
I was
returned to my Perl program, but, in the Windows version the image is
rendered and a BMP file is output, but, I'm not returned to the program.

There is a caution on the PovRay web site about switching to 3.5 over
3.1.  I wasn't sure that files created in 3.1 were compatible with 3.5.

The string below is my command string (Perl5)

system "c:\\Povray31\\bin\\pvengine.exe -D -P -GA +X +A /EXIT
+Lc:\\Povray31\\Include +Ic:\\Perl5\\$prefix.pov +Oc:\\Perl5\\$prefix.bmp
+W500 +H900 +FS"

PovRay runs, creates the BMP file, but, does not execute the next Perl5
command.  Any thoughts?

Thanks for your interest...Bob

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"Bob Rasmussen" <bob### [at] comcastnet> wrote in
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>  Can anyone help?
> 
> Regards...Bob
> 
> 

my $povpath='C:\Program Files\POV-Ray for Windows v3.5\bin\pvengine.exe';
my $povflag='/nr /exit';
my $pov_return;
$pov_return=system("\"$povpath\" task.ini $povflag");


You may want to try POVCyg and eliminate the GUI altogether.
http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/~y0013390/povcyg/


my $povpath='C:\Program Files\POVCyg\povray.exe';
my $povflag='-GR -GS +V';
my $pov_return;
$pov_return=system("\"$povpath\" task.ini $povflag");




-- 
Tom
_________________________________
The Internet Movie Project
http://www.imp.org/

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In article <3f8af81c$1@news.povray.org> , "Bob Rasmussen" 
<bob### [at] comcastnet> wrote:

> I am calling "pvengine" with required command line options including
> /EXIT.  However, after calling/launching PovRay 3.1 for Windows, rendering
> the image and writing a BMP file, I cannot seem to return to the calling
> program(Perl).  My program requires that I call PovRay a number
> of times.  Unfortunately, program control is lost after the first call.
> Can anyone help?

This is the wrong group for this question.  This group is for discussion of
the POV-Ray source code.  General questions about using the POV-Ray scene
description language should be asked in either povray.general or
povray.newusers.  Questions about a particular platform version of the
POV-Ray application supported by the POV-Team should be asked in the
newsgroup for that particular platform or povray.newusers.

    Thorsten

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