POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.beta-test : v3.8 help file update : Re: v3.8 help file update Server Time
25 Apr 2024 08:48:45 EDT (-0400)
  Re: v3.8 help file update  
From: green
Date: 2 Nov 2018 14:20:03
Message: <web.5bdc9466d18360a088dbe9e30@news.povray.org>
"Kenneth" <kdw### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> > Updated v3.8-alpha help file for POV-Ray for Windows now available on
> > GitHub:
> >
> >
https://github.com/POV-Ray/povray/tree/master/distribution/platform-specific/windows/Help
> >
> > To be simply dropped into the v3.7 installation on which the v3.8-alpha
> > is piggybacking. (They don't interfere with the v3.7 help files, as the
> > file names are different.)
> >
>
> I finally got around to downloading the latest alpha, along with this newest
> help file-- but I'm seeing a problem with the help file: Although it loads
> successfully, the entries in the 'index' list don't produce any results; that
> is, they don't 'connect' to the relevant portion of the docs. (That pane of the
> help file remains blank.) I also tried this with an earlier alpha release and
> got the same results, so it doesn't appear to be a particular alpha-release
> problem.
>
> As a last resort, I *removed* the original 3.7.0 help file from the 'Help'
> folder (to see if the two files were interfering somehow), but that didn't fix
> it.
>
> I *could* be doing something wrong on my end-- that's always a possibility, ha--
>  but I don't think so.

'unblock' the downloaded file? (is what my problem was; but i got funky
warnings)


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