I'm externally calling megapov.exe, and I want it to just render a file, but
not display a graphical user interface. For some reason, I can't find the
option for this in the docs. (I've read the chapter twice, but seems i'm
missing something.)

Thanks

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Elias Pschernig wrote:
> 
> I'm externally calling megapov.exe, and I want it to just render a file, but
> not display a graphical user interface. For some reason, I can't find the
> option for this in the docs. (I've read the chapter twice, but seems i'm
> missing something.)
> 

That's not possible with the standard windows version (neither official
nor megapov).  Various command line versions can be found on my site:

http://www.schunter.etc.tu-bs.de/~chris/povcyg.html

Christoph

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> That's not possible with the standard windows version (neither official
> nor megapov).  Various command line versions can be found on my site:
> 
> http://www.schunter.etc.tu-bs.de/~chris/povcyg.html
 
Many thanks, I will download the povcyg_mcp version..

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> That's not possible with the standard windows version (neither official
> nor megapov).  Various command line versions can be found on my site:
> 
> http://www.schunter.etc.tu-bs.de/~chris/povcyg.html

This is exactly what I wanted, but how do I turn off that annoying beep
after every frame of an animation? I *would* like a beep after the finsihed
render, but better no beep at all than all the time.. The docs only
describe additional features, and the GUI version has menu options for it,
so I have no idea what to do.

Thank you,

Elias Pschernig

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Elias Pschernig wrote:
> 
> This is exactly what I wanted, but how do I turn off that annoying beep
> after every frame of an animation? I *would* like a beep after the finsihed
> render, but better no beep at all than all the time.. The docs only
> describe additional features, and the GUI version has menu options for it,
> so I have no idea what to do.
> 

That's something i would really like to know too, could not find it in the
source code and there is no switch for this.  Furthermore it uses the
speaker and not the soundcard so you can't even turn the volume down...

Christoph

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Elias Pschernig <eli### [at] aonat> wrote:
: how do I turn off that annoying beep
: after every frame of an animation?

http://www.students.tut.fi/~warp/povVFAQ/miscVFAQ.html#nobeep

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> : how do I turn off that annoying beep
> : after every frame of an animation?
> 
> http://www.students.tut.fi/~warp/povVFAQ/miscVFAQ.html#nobeep

-p didn't help. It seems to be some windows thing.

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Elias Pschernig wrote:
> 
> -p didn't help. It seems to be some windows thing.

Right, see also:

Subject: Turning off povray's finish beep?
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 17:30:25 +0100
Newsgroups: povray.newusers

It wouldn't be a problem if i could find where to turn it off in the
source code.

Christoph

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be some windows thing.
> 
> Right, see also:
> 
> Subject: Turning off povray's finish beep?
> Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 17:30:25 +0100
> Newsgroups: povray.newusers
> 
> It wouldn't be a problem if i could find where to turn it off in the
> source code.

I just found a workaround. 
redir -eo <commandline> output.txt

This gets rid of beeping, and also has the advantage of having all the
messages in output.txt.

Elias Pschernig

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> 
> It wouldn't be a problem if i could find where to turn it off in the
> source code.
> 

I'm quite sure it is here in userio.c:

void POV_Std_Display_Finished()
{
  char s[3];

  fprintf(stderr, "\007\007");
  if (opts.Options & PROMPTEXIT)
  {
    fgets(s, 2, stdin);
  }
}

Trying grep with \b and \007 showed it up quite fast..

Btw., do you think it would be hard recompiling it with mingw ?

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