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- PovPanel 1.3 © Copyright 1994 Colin Bell.
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- WHAT IS IT:
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- PovPanel is a graphical frontend for the Persistence of Vision raytracer
- V2.0/2.2 (mostly known as POV). It allows you to configure all the POV options
- using checkbox, slider, mx and string gadgets. Once you have configured
- the options for POV, click on the GO gadget. An asynchronous CLI will open
- and execute POV with the options you specified. You may now Quit Povpanel
- and leave pov running, or you can set up more options, press GO and start
- another POV process. You can do this as many times as you like, but you
- will soon be running at snail pace. :-)
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- OPTIONS:
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- All the options of Povpanel coincide with options of POV so please refer
- to the POV 2.0 docs for more details. There are two exceptions. The Stack
- size string gadget lets you set the stacksize of the new POV task.
- It is recommended that you set this above 80000. The Priority string
- gadget lets you specify the priorit to run POV at. Plus & minus values are
- acceptable.
- All options are saved to the file ENV:povpanel.prefs and
- ENVARC:povpanel.prefs.
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- PREFS:
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- To open the Prefs/About window, press the right mouse button anywhere on
- the PovPanel window.
- The output window coordinates where POV is executed may be configured using
- the 1st four integer gadgets. Next is a checkbox gadge t where you can tell
- PovPanel to autoclose the output window when POV is finished.
- In my opinion it is better to close the output window manually in case
- there are any error messages.
- You can also specify the command to be used to run your editor. eg. ced %s
- or ed %s where %s is a C formatting code for "Insert string". The input
- filename will be inserted in the commandline here.
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- PovPanel can be run from CLI or Workbench but it MUST be placed in your POV
- directory.
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- PovPanel V1.0 is SHAREWARE. If you like this program, please consider
- registering it. When you register you will receive a custom version with
- your name in it and without the silly requester. :-)
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- Send $US 5 or $A $7 to: Colin Bell (5 USA dollars!) or
- PO Box 1058 (7 Australian dollars)
- Bondi Junction
- NSW 2022
- Australia.
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- Contact me at Internet: colin@triode.apana.org.au
- or Fidonet: 3:712/631
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- Special Thanks to Colin Chung for Beta testing and suggestions.
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- The Idea for Amiga PovPanel came from Wayne Lockhart. Thanks Wayne.
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- POVPANEL CARRIES NO GUARANTEES EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED.
- USE OF POVPANEL IS AT YOUR OWN RISK
- POVPANEL MAY NOT BE SOLD FOR ANY PROFIT WHATSOEVER
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- HISTORY:
- 1.0 First release. 22.2.94
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- 1.1 Second Release 25.2.94
- Added Zoom gadget.
- Added Window coordinates to prefs.
- Added EDIT gadget to run an editor on the input file specified.
- Added Editor prefs to the prefs window.
- Changed GetFile gadgets to graphical representations.
- Fixed up Output Format & Display format which were all wrong! :)
- Now activates the NEXT string gadget when you press return.
- Widened some numeric input gadgets slightly.
- 1.1a 26.2.94
- Somehow, I was opening asl.library V39 only! Sorry.
- 1.2 3.3.94
- Not released to the public. Added a screenmode requester so that
- you can choose screensizes. Also patched in some custom sizes
- in the requester.
- 1.3 3.4.94
- Received POV 2.2 and found there was an additional option!
- HAM8 display (great!) But I had to add it to PovPanel. There was no room
- to add another Radio-button gadget, so changed output & display format to
- CYCLE gadgets. A lot of people use CycleToMenu so it looks ok.
- Most people won't change this setting much anyway.
- Changed custom imagery gadgets so that they press in when clicked on. :)
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