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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 01 2010 - 10:20:20 CDT

Hi,
  The kCGError messages are related to the MacOS X Aqua windowing
system and have nothing to do with Tachyon. The issue you're having
with Tachyon could be caused by a number of things going on, either
causing your system to begin paging and running out of memory, or
various other possibilities. I think that in order to determine
what's going wrong, I will need you to send me (or post on the web or
on biocore) a tar.gz file containing your structure files and the
VMD saved state that will reproduce the surface representation you're
using that is giving problems. Once I have the same structure file
and graphical representations I should be able to determine what may
be happening here.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:12:11AM -0400, jamesgiacmo_at_aol.com wrote:
> Hello,
> I am having a slight problem with the Tachyon rendering. I have a
> particular pdb that loads fine into VMD, I highlight the binding pocket I
> want in a transparent surface representation and a saltbridge in a
> wireframe surface. I have some residues in licorice. What is happening is
> that after I issue the render command, it goes to generate the .dat file
> it usually does before a tachyon render, but the file never stops being
> written. It has gone on for gigabytes of data without finishing to allow
> rendering to occur. Is there some kind of problem with the surface
> commands in Tachyon? I have been able to use surf before with tachyon, but
> now it will not work. I am also receiving an error:
> VMD[3668] <Error>: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: _CGSFindSharedWindow: WID 198
> VMD[3668] <Error>: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint()
> to catch errors as they are logged.
> VMD[3668] <Error>: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSGetWindowTags: Invalid
> window 0xc6
> Does anyone have a suggestion for how to let the rendering finish?
> I am using Mac OSX 10.6 64-bit with VMD 1.8.7
> Thanks,
> James Thomas 

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