flashing disk image location?

Started by xiando

xiando Lv 1

Hi Tamirh.

Thank you for the reply. I'm afraid none of the images you show look like the one I keep seeing.

It's literally a white disk with a hole in it. I am attaching a representation I just created using paint.net, in black instead of white so it shows up when viewed against a white background (the edges of the 60x60 representation are transparent, and the interior circle is transparent.

xiando Lv 1

Also tamirh, I'd note that I play using a black background. If you play using a white background, you might never see it.

Susume Lv 1

I have seen this occasionally, in Win7, white disk against black background, though not since reading the feedback. xiando, when it flashes, is it in the place where your mouse is? Maybe it's signalling a wait state, say during a file write or database read. It's not a standard Win7 mouse pointer, but maybe the software has some custom resource images. It may be compiled as a resource in the .exe rather than existing as a file on the client.

brow42 Lv 1

It's always dead center in the screen.

I haven't seen it since the last month of casp or maybe the first batch of post-casp puzzles. Win 7. I forget about it and then it just suddenly shows up and I go 'Oh, THAT again?'. I remember last time it happened that it wouldn't go away even after messing with the view options. It seems to be linked to puzzles, either puzzle configuration, or number of segments, or special features like ED or symmetry. I tried randomly loading puzzles, and also starting up 4 more foldits to put the computer under load, but I couldn't get it to show. So, I can't help narrow it down.

xiando Lv 1

Honestly, I'm not sure but yes, I do recall seeing it somewhere around the middle of the screen on at least some occasions, although I'm not sure and won't know till I play again.

I only began playing again ~1 week ago after a hiatus of roughly 7 months. It has appeared in all four puzzles I've opened.

It has never persisted. It flashes, which is exactly *why it produces a negative physiological response. It's purpose either seems to be to produce a visual flash (A visual WOW! like the bursts they use in some internet advertising these days to attract user attention) or is an image associated with some sort of dev data backloading because some interesting event occurred (not sure why I think that.,..perhaps Adrian or one of the other devs implied as much in the way way back, or I just guessed that as a cause due to the image geometry (looks like a CD, which in my experience might imply some form of file/data operation…not sure)

vakobo Lv 1

This strange disk is appearing from time to time more than 3 years. I think there is no relationship with OS version. I saw this on W2K, XP and now on W7. Maybe brow42 is right - there is some linkage with particular puzzle.

vakobo Lv 1

I found resource file called RINGBURST.PNG in resources images big directory that look very similar

xiando Lv 1

Thanks for the reply vakobo. I found it as well while opening each one by one - (a white image with transparency simply doesn't show up against a white background, as is the case in folder views) - as well as two other "burst" images that may be other occurrences of the behavior, but not sure since they don't seem to have the sharp cutoff I think the image in question has. I guess i'll try replacing them and see if that solves the issue.

brow42 Lv 1

I have once again seen the disc and tracked it down. Sorry, I've never recorded video, so I uploaded about 20 unnecessary screen shots to your server.

It is not an icon, it is a drawing glitch. I saw it during DRW script while it was apparently testing different save slots.

The disc only appears when Show Exposed is checked (and you have exposed…the more the better). I found a similar glitch when show side chain bonds was enabled (and I had sidechain bonds). It also happens if voids are enabled.

It does not appear if neither voids nor exposeds are displayed.

To make the glitch appear, I wrote a short script to spam quickload from two slots with different configurations. The appearance and position of the glitch depends on camera position. It's clearly drawing an exposed sphere in the wrong spot, then quitting part way.