#9 XPE on Ubuntu Studio 12.04.1

[Christophe MALHAIRE]

Firstly, I would like to thank the author of this software. Here are my first impressions (installed on Ubuntu Studio 12.04.1 using "Linux Ubuntu 7.10 binary" file):
- Error message at startup: the path '/' contains too many ".."!
- After editing the pov file and clicking on Rendering, a dialog window named "Modified files" appears but even by clicking "Validate" the file is not saved. The file must be saved manually before rendering the scene.
- Comment/uncomment code sometimes does not work as expected.
- Help button opens a blank window. What can be done ?
- When clicking on "Start rendering" (or selecting the corresponding menu), a window appears very briefly then disappears. What is it? There is no window to see the final result?
- French translation: program freezes when opening "/home/christophe/Téléchargements/xpe_v_0_9_3_french_almich.xml"
- Save as...: a "Create new folder" button could be added

[CHARLES Thierry]

Hello,
thanks for your report. some answers follows :

- In the "Modified files" window, you have to select the files to save before validating

- the help button is intended to provide the comments associated to a function using javadoc syntax :
/** help of the function titi
p1 : bla bla
*/
#macro titi(p1)
....;
#end
if you click on the "titi" function in the navigator it will display your comments. It's especialy usefull when you have many includes.

- There is no output window, but you might use povray options like +D and +P (display result then pause after rendering)

- setting the translation file does not realy freezes the software. Actually, there is a confirmation dialog that is shown below the preferences dialog ... all you have to do is move the preferences dialog (but why isn't it at first plan anymore ?!)

- Save as dialog : the WX library is full gtk. It uses the "gnome-like" dialog. So when it opens, it shows the "recents" ... click on your home folder and the "create new folder" button will show on :-) (talking about ergonomy with gnome team is like to talk about open software with apple .... ooops, it sounds like a troll ;-) )

Concerning the other points :
- the error message you mention (too many '..' in '/'), I have heared about it but never was able to reproduce it :'(
- could you give more informations about the comment / uncomment bug ?

Well, I don't want to give you too much hope as there is a long time I haven't work on this project, but I'll try to find some time to make it a little better :) Have fun with pov' !

[Christophe MALHAIRE]

Hi,
Thank you for your quick response.
- About the "Modified files" window: OK, it works
- Help window: I will test this later, this could be useful
- Output window: +D +P: I got two errors: "X error : BadMatch" and below "X error : BadGC". No time to test further now, alas.
- Translation file: yes, the confirmation dialog was hidden behind the first dialog ! No problem now
- Save as dialog: OK, shame on me ! I'm a newbie with Ubuntu ;-)
- About comment/uncomment: I just found that, in order to comment multiple lines, we must select them in the right direction, from top to bottom. If we select several lines by starting from the bottom, that does not work. I also noticed that an empty line can not be uncommented. But this is not really a problem.

Thanks again for your work. It is remarkable that this software is still running so well with version 12.04!