[Tilesathome] Windows client problem.

[Ed Loach]

Thomas wrote:

> after stop the tah the hiden window pop up and tell me somthing
> download error?
> Here can you see a screen shot:
> http://picasaweb.google.de/drebert2/Tiles#5249040958998618610
> and
> http://picasaweb.google.de/drebert2/Tiles#5249040974418625922

Hi Thomas,

I think those are fairly normal displays - sometimes mine too falls
back to ROMA and smaller slices, including the request that is
currently rendering (as mentioned I can choose to show or hide the
console window):

[#415   0% Download] Tileset (12,2159,1346) around 52.35,9.80
(complexity 10165917)
[#415   0% Download] Trying ROMA
[#415   0% Download] Trying smaller slices
[#415  63% tile] Rendering...

(Another thing I did was change the properties of my shortcut to use
a non-standard console window, using a smaller font and a 132 column
display. That way when it does count down the idle time you don't
get a line per second, but the new line overlays the previous one,
and you get much more meaningful information on the screen.)

Having said that 242 minutes does look like quite a lot of idle
time, but if that is in total over 48 tiles then it is about 5
minutes per tile. This does seem high to me, but perhaps you do have
some timeout issues in the download; perhaps the link from you to
the server gets particularly busy?

Closing the windows client will bring up the "hidden" console window
when you close it before the tiles generation thread has reached the
point where it looks for a stopfile; the thread will carry on until
it finds it, or until you click the cross to close the console
Window. After you click "Stop TAH" button in the Windows client, it
won't actually stop instantly but will continue until the tilesgen
thread finishes (which may be over an hour on my machine for more
complex tiles) at which point the Update and Start buttons are
re-enabled.

Ed