Documentation:Windows Table of Contents

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Main Table of Contents

POV-Ray Tutorial

Introduction

• What is POV-Ray for Windows?
• ... And What Is It Not?
• Who Can Use POV-Ray for Windows?
• System Requirements
• System Specific Features

• SYS File Type
• System Specific Charset
• Time Units in CPU Histogram

• Spelling
• Reporting Bugs
• Trademarks

Getting Started

• The Demo
• Starting a Render Job
• Dragging and Dropping Files
• Tutorials
• Understanding File Types

• POV Files
• INI Files

• INI File Sections

• Using the Internal Editor

• The Editor Feature Set
• Turning the Internal Editor On or Off
• Preventing File Restore
• Switching between Editor windows
• Keyword Expansion and CodeList

• A Quick Example
• How Keyword Expansion Works
• CodeList
• Using CodeList
• Summary

• Configuring the Internal Editor

• Important Editor Notes
• Default Key Mappings
• Setting Key Mappings
• Reserved Keys
• Using the Mouse
• European Users and Match Brace
• Global vs. Local Options

• The Language Setting
• The Tab Spacing Setting
• The Font Setting

• I/O Restrictions

• High-Level Configuration
• Overall Options
• No Restrictions
• Restrict Write but Allow Read
• Restrict Read/Write
• Restrictions Affect all Core File I/O
• Additional Options
• Permit Read/Write in Current Directory
• Disable Starting other Programs
• Low-Level Configuration
• Overall Concept
• Adding or Changing Allowed Directories
• For Those Who use an Image Output Directory

Command-Line Options

• Special Command-Line Options
• Adding New Resolutions

Windows

• The Main Window
• The Toolbar

• Preset Rendering Options
• Toolbar Command Line

• The Status Bar
• The Tab Control
• The Message Window
• The Editor Window
• The Render Window

Menus

• File Menu

• New File
• Open File
• Close
• Close All
• Print
• Exit
• MRU List
• Older Files

• Edit Menu

• Copy Pane
• Clear Messages
• Undo
• Redo
• Cut
• Copy
• Paste
• Delete
• Select All
• Selection

• Indent
• Indent To Previous
• Undent
• Uppercase
• Lowercase
• Convert Spaces To Tabs
• Convert Tabs To Spaces

• Search Menu

• Find

• Match Whole Word Only
• Match Case
• Wildcard Search

• Replace
• Find Next
• Match Brace

• Text Menu

• Show White Space
• Set Repeat Count
• Tab Size
• Indent

• Auto-Indent Style
• None
• Language Scope
• Copy From Previous Line

• Bookmarks

• Clear All
• First
• Last
• Next
• Previous
• Toggle

• Editor Menu

• Auto-Load Error File
• Auto-Show Parse Messages
• Auto-Save Delay
• Create Backups
• Allow Undo After Manual Save
• Click Beyond EOL
• Constrain Caret To Text
• Overlay Keyword Expansion On Tab Key
• Show Message Window
• Editor Preferences Dialog
• Record Macro/Play Macro
• Auto-Reload
• Scroll Bars
• Color Scheme
• Editor Preferences

• Color/Font

• Item
• Color
• Background
• Font

• Language/Tabs

• Auto Indentation Style
• Tabs
• Language

• Keyboard
• Misc

• Smooth Scrolling
• Show Left Margin
• Line Tooltips on Scroll
• Allow Drag and Drop
• Allow Column Selection
• Confine Caret to Text
• Color Syntax Highlighting
• Show Horizontal/Vertical Scrollbar
• Allow Horizontal/Vertical Splitting
• Line Numbering
• Max Undoable Actions

• Insert Menu

• How the Insert Menu is Built
• Physical Layout
• Sorting the Insert Menu
• Adding a Separator
• Using the Insert Menu

• Render Menu

• Edit Settings/Render
• Select File and Render
• Start Rendering (Go!)/Stop Rendering
• Run Demo
• Run Benchmark
• File Queue
• Clear Queue
• Animation Pane

• Minimize Shellouts
• No Shellout Wait

• Render Priority
• Duty Cycle
• Sound Settings
• On Completion

• Do Nothing
• Display Message
• Exit POV-Ray for Windows

• Rerun

• Rerun Dialog
• Rerun
• Continue
• File List

• Options Menu

• Keep Single Instance
• Use Render Animation
• Show Toolbar
• Place in System Tray
• Script I/O Restrictions
• Drag'N'Drop Destination
• Online Operations
• Check For New Versions
• Include System Information
• Other Settings

• Use Editor
• Show Tips of the Day
• Show Tooltips
• Preserve Messages
• Save Settings on Exit
• Hide New User Help
• Show Next Tip
• Re-Render Insert Menu Bitmaps
• Message Window
• Select Plain Background
• Text Font
• Text Color
• Background Color
• Tiling Options
• Render Window
• Force 8 Bit Display
• Preserve Contents During Animation
• Re-display
• Autoclose
• Close
• Keep Above Main
• Get Focus on Creation
• Hide When Main Minimized
• Editor Window

• Tools Menu

• Syntax Coloring
• Reload Tool Menu
• Edit PVTOOLS.INI
• Example PVTOOLS.INI
• GUI Extensions Menu

• Context Menus

• The Message Window Context Menu
• Minimize to System Tray
• Show Tip
• The Render Window Context Menu
• The Editor Window Context Menu
• Show or Hide Messages
• Context Help
• Open <Filename>
• Copy "..." to Command-Line

Bug Reports

• Things that look like bugs but aren't
• Feature Requests are not bugs
• "I don't like the way this works so it must be a bug"
• Known Bugs
• Bugs and GUI Extensions
• Spelling
• Bug Reporting via Email
• Bug Reporting via our News Server

Speed Considerations

• Render Priority
• Render Window
• Memory
• Scene Features
• Render Quality

POV-Ray Reference

POV-Ray Tutorial

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