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From: Jon S  Berndt
Subject: POV-Ray 3.1
Date: 29 Sep 1998 09:50:07
Message: <3610d77f.0@news.povray.org>
POV-Team:

Well, I have installed 3.1 and it is really slick. Very impressive editor
and UI. I had seen the pic of the UI and wondered how y'all did the syntax
highlighting. Being a C++Builder aficianado I wanted to know if you used a
third party control - I may have need for one shortly. Your readme file was
helpful and thanks to WinMain Software for donating CodeMax. I'll have to
take a look at their web site.

- jon -


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From: povray org admin team
Subject: Re: POV-Ray 3.1
Date: 29 Sep 1998 10:45:42
Message: <3610e477.36149340@news.povray.org>
"Jon S. Berndt" <jsb### [at] hal-pcorg> wrote:

>highlighting. Being a C++Builder aficianado I wanted to know if you used a
>third party control - I may have need for one shortly. Your readme file was

We rolled our own C++Builder component that encapsulated CodeMax. But it's not
really necessary as CodeMax is quite easy to use, even as a DLL.


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From: Morpheus Dreamlord
Subject: Re: POV-Ray 3.1
Date: 30 Sep 1998 04:59:41
Message: <3611E4E4.629F1486@mailexcite.com>
Uhh..it IS very nice...I just wanted to know if it's possible to get rid
of the buttons for pov web site and the ray trace competition site
WITHOUT disabling the whole toolbar......not ALL of us have a permenant
net connection, and to accidently hit these buttons fires up my logon
rubbish (which falls over, taking povray and win95 with it...)

Jon S. Berndt wrote:
> 
> POV-Team:
> 
> Well, I have installed 3.1 and it is really slick. Very impressive editor
> and UI. I had seen the pic of the UI and wondered how y'all did the syntax
> highlighting. Being a C++Builder aficianado I wanted to know if you used a
> third party control - I may have need for one shortly. Your readme file was
> helpful and thanks to WinMain Software for donating CodeMax. I'll have to
> take a look at their web site.
> 
> - jon -

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From: Dan Connelly
Subject: Re: POV-Ray 3.1
Date: 30 Sep 1998 21:51:34
Message: <3612D227.F7FAE42C@flash.net>
Morpheus Dreamlord wrote:
> 
> Uhh..it IS very nice...I just wanted to know if it's possible to get rid
> of the buttons for pov web site and the ray trace competition site
> WITHOUT disabling the whole toolbar...


Why not take the plunge and just disable the whole toolbar?

I keep it off except to use "pause" (which isn't in
the render pull-down).  Nothing else there is more than
a pull-down away, and the toolbar takes up way
too much valuable screen space.

The only thing to watch for is "Edit Settings/Render"
doesn't prompt for saving the buffer before rendering....
do it from the file pull-down first, or use the "render"
pull-down, which does prompt.

Dan

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From: Morpheus Dreamlord
Subject: Re: POV-Ray 3.1
Date: 1 Oct 1998 04:22:12
Message: <36132D9E.F27C5746@mailexcite.com>
Ok..how about the pulldown size menu...I have that filled with varios
sizes and AA levels for AntiAlias, etc....is that still available if the
whole toolbar is gone?


Second Q, to PovTeam.....is it at all possible (pleeeeeese) to have the
render window NOT blank out when you select an area to re-render...

eg..simple pic, say, spheres on a plane....render...change
colour/texture of one sphere...select that sphere...rerender....BUT it
only rerenders THAT selected area and blacks out the rest.

can it be made to leave the non selected area there and just rerender
the selected bit?

Dan Connelly wrote:
> 
> Morpheus Dreamlord wrote:
> >
> > Uhh..it IS very nice...I just wanted to know if it's possible to get rid
> > of the buttons for pov web site and the ray trace competition site
> > WITHOUT disabling the whole toolbar...
> 
> Why not take the plunge and just disable the whole toolbar?
> 
> I keep it off except to use "pause" (which isn't in
> the render pull-down).  Nothing else there is more than
> a pull-down away, and the toolbar takes up way
> too much valuable screen space.
> 
> The only thing to watch for is "Edit Settings/Render"
> doesn't prompt for saving the buffer before rendering....
> do it from the file pull-down first, or use the "render"
> pull-down, which does prompt.
> 
> Dan
> 
> --
> http://www.flash.net/~djconnel/

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The only good politician is a dead politician !!
Politics or religion = corruption and true evil.
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From: Dan Connelly
Subject: Re: POV-Ray 3.1
Date: 1 Oct 1998 08:59:08
Message: <36136EA0.58220D68@flash.net>
Morpheus Dreamlord wrote:
> 
> Ok..how about the pulldown size menu...I have that filled with varios
> sizes and AA levels for AntiAlias, etc....is that still available if the
> whole toolbar is gone?

It's in "Edit Settings/Render", where it can be set either
via a pull-down or via command line options +W +H.


> Second Q, to PovTeam.....is it at all possible (pleeeeeese) to have the
> render window NOT blank out when you select an area to re-render...

I am not on the team, but it was already mentioned to this group this
would be a non-trivial change.

Why don't you write a GUI extension to do it ? (Pleeeeeeeeeeeesssssseeeeessssse) :)

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From: PoD
Subject: Re: POV-Ray 3.1
Date: 1 Oct 1998 15:41:15
Message: <3613CCC7.6C78@merlin.net.au>
Dan Connelly wrote:
> 
> Morpheus Dreamlord wrote:
> >
> > Ok..how about the pulldown size menu...I have that filled with varios
> > sizes and AA levels for AntiAlias, etc....is that still available if the
> > whole toolbar is gone?
> 
> It's in "Edit Settings/Render", where it can be set either
> via a pull-down or via command line options +W +H.
> 
> > Second Q, to PovTeam.....is it at all possible (pleeeeeese) to have the
> > render window NOT blank out when you select an area to re-render...
> 
> I am not on the team, but it was already mentioned to this group this
> would be a non-trivial change.
> 
> Why don't you write a GUI extension to do it ? (Pleeeeeeeeeeeesssssseeeeessssse) :)
> 
> --
> http://www.flash.net/~djconnel/

Does non-trivial mean not practical in this case?  It would be a very
handy option for animations as well.
PoD.


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From: Ken
Subject: Re: POV-Ray 3.1
Date: 1 Oct 1998 16:17:32
Message: <3613D4FF.DCBE83AE@pacbell.net>
PoD wrote:

> Does non-trivial mean not practical in this case?  It would be a very
> handy option for animations as well.
> PoD.

  I believe the non-trivial statment from the Pov team meant
it would take a considerable amount of re-writing of the
editor code to impliment correctly.

Ken


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From: PoD
Subject: Re: POV-Ray 3.1
Date: 3 Oct 1998 16:03:36
Message: <36167509.3543@merlin.net.au>
Ken wrote:
> 
> PoD wrote:
> 
> > Does non-trivial mean not practical in this case?  It would be a very
> > handy option for animations as well.
> > PoD.
> 
>   I believe the non-trivial statment from the Pov team meant
> it would take a considerable amount of re-writing of the
> editor code to impliment correctly.
> 
> Ken

Fair enough, it's not an essential feature, just something that would be
icing on the cake :^>


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