Re: [PyMOL] Pymol 1.0 graphics bug

[Abhinav V. <abh...@gm...>]

although maybe out of context (as I am talking about the older pymol
0.99rc6 on windows), but the same happens with windows 2003 server .
If you do
not touch anything, the screen keeps updating.

On 8/30/07, DeLano Scientific <de...@de...> wrote:
>
> Roger,
>
> This isn't so much a PyMOL bug as a flaky characteristic of OpenGL under
> Windows XP, which eventually stops updating the screen when an application
> like PyMOL attempts to draw continuously for a long period of time without
> relinquishing control back to the operating system event loop.
>
> PyMOL isn't actually frozen when this happens -- it continues to render
> and
> write out images.  Windows simply isn't updating the screen.  The problem
> doesn't exist on Windows 2k or Linux, but a very similar behavior occurs
> with MacPYMOL (but which can be worked around by dragging the MacPyMOL
> window).  Eventually we'll rearchitect PyMOL's event loop so as to
> eliminate
> this annoyance.
>
> Cheers,
> Warren
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pym...@li...
> > [mailto:pym...@li...] On Behalf
> > Of Roger Rowlett
> > Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 9:15 PM
> > To: pym...@li...
> > Subject: [PyMOL] Pymol 1.0 graphics bug
> >
> > In Pymol 1.0, the pymol viewer freezes during an mpng command
> > in progress if the mouse pointer is moved. (Windows XP XP2
> > only, using Intel chips and motherboard, Nvidia graphics card
> > and driver) PNG files are written out properly, and viewer
> > window becomes live again after completion of the mpng
> > command. I have verified this on two different systems, one
> > with an Intel DG945CC board and Pentium D 805 with Nvidia
> > GeForce 7300S and another with an Intel DQ965FE board and
> > Core Duo 2 E6600 with XFX GeForce 8600 GT graphics. Both
> > machines have 2 Gbyte of RAM and the latest Nvidia drivers.
> > This behavior cannot be duplicated in Linux FC6 using a
> > Quadro 980XGL and a single core Pentium 4, also with 2 Gbyte of RAM.
> >
> > Anybody else notice this?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> >
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