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                 PovPanel 1.3 © Copyright 1994 Colin Bell.

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WHAT IS IT:

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. :-)

OPTIONS:

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.

PREFS:

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.

PovPanel can be run from CLI or Workbench but it MUST be placed in your POV
directory.

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. :-)

Send $US 5 or $A $7 to:  Colin Bell			(5 USA dollars!) or
                         PO Box 1058        (7 Australian dollars)  
                         Bondi Junction
                         NSW  2022
                         Australia.

Contact me at Internet: colin@triode.apana.org.au 
            or Fidonet: 3:712/631

Special Thanks to Colin Chung for Beta testing and suggestions.

The Idea for Amiga PovPanel came from Wayne Lockhart. Thanks Wayne.

         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

HISTORY:
1.0  First release.  22.2.94

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. :)