Pov-Win has a menu that says GUI-Extensions, but I have never seen one, or
even seen any reference to it in the help files...

Any clues?

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Twyst wrote:
> 
> Pov-Win has a menu that says GUI-Extensions, but I have never seen one, or
> even seen any reference to it in the help files...
> 
> Any clues?

The GUI extensions are when you right click on a file that is a *.pov
file (using Win95).  It gives you the option of rendering it or of
editing it.....


TechnoMage
tec### [at] mindlesscom
"Of all the things that I have lost I miss my mind the most"
--Jimi Hendrix

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Actually, as far as I know.. That's NOT it.. Why would it say "No Extensions
Loaded" beneath it then? What you are talking about is a registry-type
setting..
That's a file association, and Pov-Win has a default set for what to do with
it. Read PVENGINE.INI


TechnoMage wrote in message <346### [at] mindlesscom>...
>Twyst wrote:
>>
>> Pov-Win has a menu that says GUI-Extensions, but I have never seen one,
or
>> even seen any reference to it in the help files...
>>
>> Any clues?
>
>The GUI extensions are when you right click on a file that is a *.pov
>file (using Win95).  It gives you the option of rendering it or of
>editing it.....
>
>
>TechnoMage
>tec### [at] mindlesscom
>"Of all the things that I have lost I miss my mind the most"
>--Jimi Hendrix

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Twyst wrote:
> 
> Actually, as far as I know.. That's NOT it.. Why would it say "No Extensions
> Loaded" beneath it then? What you are talking about is a registry-type
> setting..
> That's a file association, and Pov-Win has a default set for what to do with
> it. Read PVENGINE.INI
> 
> TechnoMage wrote in message <346### [at] mindlesscom>...
> >Twyst wrote:
> >>
> >> Pov-Win has a menu that says GUI-Extensions, but I have never seen one,
> or
> >> even seen any reference to it in the help files...
> >>
> >> Any clues?
> >
> >The GUI extensions are when you right click on a file that is a *.pov
> >file (using Win95).  It gives you the option of rendering it or of
> >editing it.....

Actually I believe that the GUI-extension in POV is the fourth button
next to
the minimize, maximize and close buttons, allowing you to have a small
version
of the rendering output on top of all your other windows...

//Hans Wachtmeister

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Twyst (sir### [at] hotmailcom) wrote:
> Pov-Win has a menu that says GUI-Extensions, but I have never seen one, or
> even seen any reference to it in the help files...

> Any clues?

I saw many things that seemed wrong to me.

GUI means Graphical User Interface. It is a program that can be called by
POV to provide some user-friendly interface. I guess this could apply to a
modeller or something like that.

Hope this helps,
  B-o-b

--
          --+* Roland « B-o-b » Mas *+--
bob### [at] casimirrezelenstfr -- Linux, POV-Ray, LaTeX

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Twyst wrote:
> 
> Pov-Win has a menu that says GUI-Extensions, but I have never seen
> one, or
> even seen any reference to it in the help files...
> 
> Any clues?

I am reasonably sure that the GUI-Extensions are capabilities that can
be added by third party developers. The source code is available in the
archives. The documentation should be there for how to add your own
special capabilities to the Windows interface. Probably you would create
a DLL which conforms to some special set of rules, then somehow register
that DLL with POV. When you run POV's Windows front-end it would
recognize this extension and it would show up in the menu under
GUI-Extensions.

Just a guess.

Jon

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Jon S. Berndt wrote in message <3465C6C7.14DB1D37@hal-pc.org>...
|Twyst wrote:
|> 
|> Pov-Win has a menu that says GUI-Extensions, but I have never seen
|> one, or
|> even seen any reference to it in the help files...
|> 
|> Any clues?
|
|I am reasonably sure that the GUI-Extensions are capabilities that can
|be added by third party developers. The source code is available in the
|archives. The documentation should be there for how to add your own
|special capabilities to the Windows interface. Probably you would create
|a DLL which conforms to some special set of rules, then somehow register
|that DLL with POV. When you run POV's Windows front-end it would
|recognize this extension and it would show up in the menu under
|GUI-Extensions.
|
|Just a guess.
|
|Jon

 Shortly after Pov 3 was released there was a PovTeam announcement
that a mailing list would be formed for parties interested in writing extensions.
I expressed interest in that but nothing seemed to ever have happened.
Maybe it is something reserved to the Compuserve Forun?

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Pan wrote in message <34661cce.0@news.povray.org>...

>
> Shortly after Pov 3 was released there was a PovTeam announcement
>that a mailing list would be formed for parties interested in writing
extensions.
>I expressed interest in that but nothing seemed to ever have happened.
>Maybe it is something reserved to the Compuserve Forun?
>
>
If that is the case, I am truly unhappy about that.. I do NOT have a
compuserve account, and I really do NOT have the money OR inclination to get
one.

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Twyst wrote:
> 
> Pan wrote in message <34661cce.0@news.povray.org>...
> 
> >
> > Shortly after Pov 3 was released there was a PovTeam announcement
> >that a mailing list would be formed for parties interested in writing
> extensions.
> >I expressed interest in that but nothing seemed to ever have
> happened.
> >Maybe it is something reserved to the Compuserve Forun?
> >
> >
> If that is the case, I am truly unhappy about that.. I do NOT have a
> compuserve account, and I really do NOT have the money OR inclination
> to get
> one.

Maybe a new newsgroup needs to be added, here?

Check out the source file: POV/povray3/source/windows/guiext/guidemo.c
from the source code archive. That file seems to have the most
information about extensions.

Jon

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> Shortly after Pov 3 was released there was a PovTeam announcement
>that a mailing list would be formed for parties interested in writing extensions.
>I expressed interest in that but nothing seemed to ever have happened.

Indeed such a list was created. About 5 people joined it. I posted a message on
it asking the members for their opinions about development options. No-one even
replied.

The list existed up until about two months ago when it got nuked without a
single message (apart from my own) ever having been posted on it.

-- Chris

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povray.org admin team wrote in message <34679030.4602434@news.povray.org>...
|> Shortly after Pov 3 was released there was a PovTeam announcement
|>that a mailing list would be formed for parties interested in writing extensions.
|>I expressed interest in that but nothing seemed to ever have happened.
|
|Indeed such a list was created. About 5 people joined it. I posted a message on
|it asking the members for their opinions about development options. No-one even
|replied.
|
|The list existed up until about two months ago when it got nuked without a
|single message (apart from my own) ever having been posted on it.
|
|-- Chris

 I read the message announcing the list and responded to it in 
c.g.r.r. - somehow I must have missed any follow-up indicating
how to join the list because I never was a member of that list.

 I believe the interest exists for discussing the topic of GUI
extensions. Maybe povray.windows.gui-extensions ?

Pan

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well the first gui extension i've seen is in the Moray For Windows Beta..
<which is incredible>..it uses a gui--extesnsion to render within moray in
a box.. it brings the render into moray, in a way.. 
darrell miller

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The Only GUI extension I have seen on my Windows box is one for Texture
View...

basically, you create a collection of textures in TV, then tell it to render,
and it will launch POV-Ray, then instead of spitting the image out in POV-Ray,
the rendered image appears in Texture View. The about box states that it was
created by Friedemann Schmidt and his url is
http://www.rz.fhtw-berlin.de/~s0049669


Twyst wrote:

> Pov-Win has a menu that says GUI-Extensions, but I have never seen one, or
> even seen any reference to it in the help files...
>
> Any clues?

--
Josh English
eng### [at] spiritonecom
www.spiritone.com/~english

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Moray also uses a GUI extension, just allows other programs to "talk" to
povray

Rick
http://kitty5.cjb.net

Josh English wrote in message <36C1B760.2C1DD7D7@spiritone.com>...
>The Only GUI extension I have seen on my Windows box is one for Texture
>View...
>
>basically, you create a collection of textures in TV, then tell it to
render,
>and it will launch POV-Ray, then instead of spitting the image out in
POV-Ray,
>the rendered image appears in Texture View. The about box states that it
was
>created by Friedemann Schmidt and his url is
>http://www.rz.fhtw-berlin.de/~s0049669
>
>
>Twyst wrote:
>
>> Pov-Win has a menu that says GUI-Extensions, but I have never seen one,
or
>> even seen any reference to it in the help files...
>>
>> Any clues?
>
>--
>Josh English
>eng### [at] spiritonecom
>www.spiritone.com/~english
>
>

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