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Attached to Project: POV-Ray
Opened by Christian Froeschlin - 2010-03-09
Last edited by Chris Cason - 2010-12-31

FS#80 - Bad behavior for missing image file

The following SDL code 

sphere {0, 1 pigment {image_map {png "missing.png"}}

yields “render failed” in 3.7b25 and the position of the error
is not highlighted in source code, giving no clue what went wrong.
In 3.6 this yields “Parse Error: Cannot open PNG file”.

Closed by  Chris Cason
Friday, 31 December 2010, 14:38 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Grimbert Jérôme commented on Sunday, 24 October 2010, 13:31 GMT

Seems fixed in beta 39

File 'bad.pov' line 1: Possible Parse Error: Cannot find file 'missing.png',
 even after trying to append file type extension.
File 'bad.pov' line 1: Possible Parse Error: Cannot find image file.
Fatal error in parser: Cannot open file.
Render failed
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Christoph Lipka commented on Monday, 01 November 2010, 18:30 GMT

Issue is only partially fixed; while the error message is now more helpful, the error location is still not highlighted in the source code.

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Chris Cason commented on Tuesday, 02 November 2010, 08:16 GMT

This should be working more or less as expected as of change #5180.

Grimbert Jérôme commented on Wednesday, 15 December 2010, 19:52 GMT 
File 'bad.pov' line 1: Possible Parse Error: Cannot find file 'missing.png',
 even after trying to append file type extension.
File 'bad.pov' line 1: Parse Error: Cannot find image file.
Fatal error in parser: Cannot parse input.
Render failed

Tested with beta 40, the error location is provided (line 1), as well a more assertive error message (Possible is gone!)
(and the missing file is named too, so what do you want as more details ?)

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