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From: Remco de Korte
Subject: Feature request (uh-oh...)
Date: 24 Oct 1999 10:21:23
Message: <381315EE.7919D09A@xs4all.nl>
Yet another small feature request.
It's nothing essential, just something to make life a little easier on the
average POV-junkie living in Microsoft-world (i.e. this is a request specific to
the windows-version - I guess...)
I would really appreciate it if the editor would have an option to show a
rendered image that goes with the scene-file you're editing at that moment. I
know it shows the image while rendering and after that, while you're editing.
What I mean is, when you open a file in the editor, it shows the rendered image
(from a previous session for instance) if there is any. When switching
scenefiles it should show the appropriate image for each scene. This makes it
easier to manage multiple scenes. At the moment I have to load each image in an
external viewer to check what it looked like (I even wrote an imagebrowser for
this).
Does this sound silly?

Remco


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From: TonyB
Subject: Re: Feature request (uh-oh...)
Date: 24 Oct 1999 11:10:31
Message: <38132167@news.povray.org>
And while they're adding this, I would appreciate the modification in the
display of the images. I don't want the thing to black out the old image
when displaying, I want it to just draw right over. This would be useful for
animations: you could more easily see the animation happening. Oh, and if
you can add the small window edge like in 3.02, I would really like that. I
don't know why it was ever taken away.


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From: Alan Kong
Subject: Re: Feature request (uh-oh...)
Date: 24 Oct 1999 19:59:08
Message: <A5wTOD61+G69SrPhOxnnRiqZZGf1@4ax.com>
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999 09:53:16 -0400, "TonyB" <ben### [at] panamaphoenixnet>
wrote:

>Oh, and if you can add the small window edge like in 3.02, I would
>really like that. I don't know why it was ever taken away.

  Hi, Tony. Are you referring to the Maxi-minimise feature that would
minimize to a small render window on the Windows desktop? Chris was able to
write this neat feature using an older set of tools that supported Win32
applications running under Windows v3.1 but had to abandon them to
incorporate a true Win32 version of POV-Ray to support future development.

  FWIW, I liked this feature a lot, also (if this is indeed the feature
you're talking about).

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From: TonyB
Subject: Re: Feature request (uh-oh...)
Date: 24 Oct 1999 20:46:36
Message: <3813a86c@news.povray.org>
No. I didn't like that particular feature very much myself. Didn't use it
much. Maybe now that I have a faster computer it would be nice. What I was
referring to was... OK. Let me put it this way. The render window has a
title bar (top edge). I remember that the previous version of POV had the
option of right clicking on the render window and selecting an option that
made the title bar become thinner. Do you remember now?


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From: omniVERSE
Subject: Re: Feature request (uh-oh...)
Date: 24 Oct 1999 20:54:16
Message: <3813aa38@news.povray.org>
Why not a complete image post-processing Ap? Sorry, I'm being sarcastic
unwittingly....
Would be good to do contrast, brightness, color adjustments, cropping,
copy&paste.  Just the minimal stuff of course.  I don't see that as going to
happen really.  Yet the old overwritten by the new image is a very
worthwhile feature idea.
Thumbnails for the editor (or some manner of it) means a kind of image
gallery, not a bad idea either but I can't see that happening for the editor
unless the original maker has those plans in mind.  Could always email the
Codemax author I guess and suggest it.  How many other applications which it
is geared to have images as a part of their operation I wonder? Few, if any?

Bob

TonyB <ben### [at] panamaphoenixnet> wrote in message
news:38132167@news.povray.org...
> And while they're adding this, I would appreciate the modification in the
> display of the images. I don't want the thing to black out the old image
> when displaying, I want it to just draw right over. This would be useful
for
> animations: you could more easily see the animation happening. Oh, and if
> you can add the small window edge like in 3.02, I would really like that.
I
> don't know why it was ever taken away.
>
>


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From: omniVERSE
Subject: Re: Feature request (uh-oh...)
Date: 24 Oct 1999 22:06:36
Message: <3813bb2c@news.povray.org>
I know what you're talking about, I never understood the benefit.

Bob

TonyB <ben### [at] panamaphoenixnet> wrote in message
news:3813a86c@news.povray.org...
> No. I didn't like that particular feature very much myself. Didn't use it
> much. Maybe now that I have a faster computer it would be nice. What I was
> referring to was... OK. Let me put it this way. The render window has a
> title bar (top edge). I remember that the previous version of POV had the
> option of right clicking on the render window and selecting an option that
> made the title bar become thinner. Do you remember now?
>
>


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From: Ken
Subject: Re: Feature request (uh-oh...)
Date: 25 Oct 1999 01:40:26
Message: <3813ECBC.A3F88C63@pacbell.net>
omniVERSE wrote:
> 
> I know what you're talking about, I never understood the benefit.
> 
> Bob

I recall Chris Cason mentioning something about that feature during the
beta testing of v3.1 and he felt it was not a useful enough feature to
continue supporting. This is the first time I have heard someone even
mention missing the feature.

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From: Mick Hazelgrove
Subject: Re: Feature request (uh-oh...)
Date: 25 Oct 1999 03:02:51
Message: <3814009b@news.povray.org>
> Thumbnails for the editor (or some manner of it) means a kind of image
> gallery, not a bad idea either but I can't see that happening for the
editor
> unless the original maker has those plans in mind.  Could always email the
> Codemax author I guess and suggest it.  How many other applications which
it
> is geared to have images as a part of their operation I wonder? Few, if
any?

Vue d'esprit shows images on all load windows! It is a very useful feature!

Mick


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