Viewing screensaver graphics not as a screensaver?
16 Mar 2005 3:40:00 UTC
Topic 188555
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I've read the following page
http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/starsphere.php
and near the bottom it tells me that if I open/view the graphics in a separate window I can have mouser and cursor control for zoom and pan. Cool!
Ok, what file do I open in a separate window? I looked for likely candidate files in "my" boinc directory and sub-directories but did not see anything that looked germane. Suggestions?
Bruce Richardson
Team: Richwood Timber LLC
When the going gets weird, the weird turn PRO. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Viewing screensaver graphics not as a screensaver?
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> I've read the following page
> http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/starsphere.php
> and near the bottom it tells me that if I open/view the graphics in a separate
> window I can have mouser and cursor control for zoom and pan. Cool!
>
> Ok, what file do I open in a separate window? I looked for likely candidate
> files in "my" boinc directory and sub-directories but did not see anything
> that looked germane. Suggestions?
>
> Bruce Richardson
> Team: Richwood Timber LLC
>
In Boinc V 4.19 you could right click on the running WU shown on the Work tab to display its Einstein graphics window.
In Boinc V4.25 you click to select the running wu shown on the Work tab and then click show graphics link that appears in the Boinc task pane when wu selected to display its Einstein graphics window.
Note: When I do this in Boinc V 4.25 with Einstein application version 4.79 the graphics window displays fine, but when I close this window it produces an unrecoverable error in the wu being processed.
> In Boinc V4.25 you click to
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> In Boinc V4.25 you click to select the running wu shown on the Work tab and
> then click show graphics link that appears in the Boinc task pane when wu
> selected to display its Einstein graphics window.
> Note: When I do this in Boinc V 4.25 with Einstein application version 4.79
> the graphics window displays fine, but when I close this window it produces
> an unrecoverable error in the wu being processed.
sounds good but ... it does not work !?! except for the message in the work
tab changing to ... computation error ;-)
heeeeeeeeeeeeelllllllllp.
ps : so far, I don't care for the credits so much, I mean this is a good
voluntary work kind of think, but I like the idea of SEEING the work done
eh eh.
Philippe, from Brasil.
> > In Boinc V4.25 you click
)
> > In Boinc V4.25 you click to select the running wu shown on the Work tab
> and
> > then click show graphics link that appears in the Boinc task pane when
> wu
> > selected to display its Einstein graphics window.
> > Note: When I do this in Boinc V 4.25 with Einstein application version
> 4.79
> > the graphics window displays fine, but when I close this window it
> produces
> > an unrecoverable error in the wu being processed.
>
>
> sounds good but ... it does not work !?! except for the message in the work
> tab changing to ... computation error ;-)
>
> heeeeeeeeeeeeelllllllllp.
> ps : so far, I don't care for the credits so much, I mean this is a good
> voluntary work kind of think, but I like the idea of SEEING the work done
> eh eh.
>
> Philippe, from Brasil.
>
Hi Philippe,
I too did the same the first time I should discover this fine new thing! So I hover the curser over the titles in the Task area and then it shows in the Tips area what clickng there will do, and first then I click! Also when I want to update a project. Clicking the wrong place can suspend the project, so I also found out, because suddenly that project stopped!
I lost a more than half crunched (5 hours!) Einstein WU plus an another WU! So I know the pain!
But, please remember, if you want to see the graphic, the processing of your WU is slowed down. So, even it's fun to watch now and then, I just want the WU's processed and do some other stuff on my computer, such as reading on the boards!