povray icon click does not work

[GBZH]

Issue Type: Bug

Hi,

I am running Code on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with Povray extension.
A few days ago when clicking on the top right povray icon in Code, rendering was working, but since 2 days, nothing happens, no error message, no outpout and no rendered imahge gets open.
Any hints would be more than welcome.
Many thanks

Extension version: 0.0.11
VS Code version: Code 1.59.0 (379476f0e13988d90fab105c5c19e7abc8b1dea8, 2021-08-04T23:13:20.182Z)
OS version: Linux x64 5.4.0-80-generic
Restricted Mode: No

System Info

Item	Value
CPUs	Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5820K CPU @ 3.30GHz (12 x 1452)
GPU Status	2d_canvas: enabled gpu_compositing: enabled multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on oop_rasterization: disabled_off opengl: enabled_on rasterization: disabled_software skia_renderer: enabled_on video_decode: disabled_software vulkan: disabled_off webgl: enabled webgl2: enabled
Load (avg)	0, 0, 0
Memory (System)	31.24GB (19.37GB free)
Process Argv	--crash-reporter-id 3681ac4d-1abf-416a-aecf-706e77ed0e41
Screen Reader	no
VM	0%
DESKTOP_SESSION	mate
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP	MATE
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[GBZH]

In fact it looks like the icon button is not linked to any executable. Where can such a link be made ? Probably in one of the json files located in folder .vscode/extensions/jmaxwilson.vscode-povray-0.0.11/, but I do not know enough of this langage to make this link.
Does anyone knows how to it for other extensions ?

[GBZH]

One more thing: CTRL+SHIFT+b asks "Select the build task to run" and proposes only one task : "POV-Ray: Render Scene" which works fine when chosen ! This last message is the same obtained when putting the mouse on the non working top right Povray render icon.

[salsalex2001]

Well, same here on Mac (BigSur 11.4) with VSCode
( Version: 1.59.0
Commit: 379476f0e13988d90fab105c5c19e7abc8b1dea8
Date: 2021-08-04T23:14:40.191Z
Electron: 13.1.7
Chrome: 91.0.4472.124
Node.js: 14.16.0
V8: 9.1.269.36-electron.0
OS: Darwin x64 20.5.0 )

This was working well untill end of 2020, then on my side I got an update of VSCode to above version.
Not sure how to help.
When I click the Povray button, nothing happen - usually the terminal window shows the povray command line output...
But now, nothing happens at all :/
Unfortunately I also know nothing here in VSCode extensions...
Hoping for a fix soon, thank you ! Any further information I can provide on my side, please let me know....

[kennebel]

I decided to fork this project and build a new extension with some fixes, like the button in the upper right works again. (some changes in VSCode and POV-Ray caused issues as noticed)

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=virtual-whirlwind.vscode-povray2
https://github.com/VirtualWhirlwind/vscode-povray2

I'm just interested in helping the community, I'm brand new to extensions, and we'll see how all of this goes. Hopefully no one is upset. :)