Re: [Jmol-users] Jmol -- two major advances

[Robert H. <ha...@st...>]

We could try that.

set repaintWaitMs 1000

12.0.RC4

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Rolf Huehne <rh...@fl...> wrote:

> On 04/07/2010 03:12 PM, Robert Hanson wrote:
> > Rolf,
> >
> > I think what's happening is that the image is too complex. There is a
> > 2-second timeout on the refreshing request, and that is done right before
> > the image is created. So in general, displays take less than 2 seconds,
> and
> > we have no problem. But if a display takes more than 2 seconds, Jmol
> ignores
> > the hold and continues -- this was important because in certain
> situations
> > Jmol would make a request to the operating system for a repaint, and it
> > would not be returned for some reason. I'm not saying I really understand
> > it. But that timeout on the rendering wait fixes that.
> >
> > I believe it would work if you did this as a command line job with the
> -ion
> > flags set (silent, no console, no display).
> > With no display there won't be any rendering request.  Please do try
> that.
> >
> I tried the command line job and it worked.
> (It took about 4.5 hours real time.)
>
> Would it be possible to set the timeout length dynamically or at least
> make it manually configurable?
>
> Regards,
> Rolf
>
>
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