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19 May 2024 09:31:36 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Can I set breakpoint in the codes to debug?  
From: Jack
Date: 19 Dec 2007 07:10:00
Message: <web.47690973e53c0624dc6489f80@news.povray.org>
Thanks!
Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
> Jack wrote:
> > I am a new-user and met some problems when using POV-ray. I use Version 3.6.1
> > for Windows. Here are the problems:
> > 1,After the rendering, how to direct the POV-Ray text output streams to a file?
>
> By reading the documentation.
>
> > 2,After the rendering, I click 'View histogram image file' in the 'Tools' menu,
> > but it says 'No file to open'. How can I deal with this problem? Thanks!
>
> By reading the documentation.
>
> > 3,How to smart-indent the .pov file to clearly show the source codes in the
> > loops and #if-else-end. For example, I copy some source codes in the tutorial
> > to the pov 'editor window', but they are in a mess, and difficult to read and
> > knew which loops the codes belong to. So I want to select them all and
> > smart-indent them. Is there any ways I can deal with this question? Thanks!
>
> You can indent them manually.
>
> > 4,How to set breakpoint in the codes to debug? Thanks!
>
> You can't, there is no such thing as a breakpoint.
>
> > 5,How to check the variable's value after the rendering? Thanks!
>
> By using the #debug statement you can check it at the end of parsing or
> during parsing. The variables won't exist any more as soon as rendering starts.
>
>  Thorsten


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