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Selecting this command lets you look at the queue of files ready to be processed. You can add a file to the bottom
of the queue or delete a file (you have to select it first by clicking on it). Once you have made your changes to the
file queue, press OK to confirm the changes or Cancel to leave the queue as it was before you called up the screen.
You can select multiple files in the file browse dialog box by using Control or Shift when clicking on them.
The File Queue dialog box has two checkboxes in addition to the normal controls (like add/remove file etc.)
The first, Reload on Startup, when selected, causes the contents of the file queue to be stored to disk each time
it is accessed. When POV-Ray is started up with this option active, and the file queue had entries in it, they are
loaded off disk and back into the queue. If Auto Render was also selected, POV-Ray would then start rendering them.
The second, Auto Render, instructs POV-Ray for Windows to render whatever is in the file queue (see File Queue
below). When you switch Auto Render off, any files dropped onto the POV-Ray window are added to the queue but not
rendered. In other words, while Auto Render is turned off, the file queue is inactive. However, any file selected with
the Render/Start Rendering command will still be processed. Once you switch Auto Render back on again, if there are
files in the queue, they will begin to be processed.
NOTE that due to the way that some versions of Windows returns multiple file selections to us, if you
use Ctrl or Shift to select more than two files in the Add to Queue file browse box, and then click on OK, the first
and last entries will be transposed. (We can't swap them back to their original position since we can't tell if the
transposition has happened in the first place).
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