[Gate-users] Slice time displays as 1+e07 on command line

[Didier Benoit]

Hi Marc,

I think it's not bug, in fact the time is in nanosecond (1e+07 ns). The time in GATE is always in nanosecond. "Time: 1e+07" means your frame time is 1e+07 ns for each run.

Kind regards,
Didier

On Dec 9, 2010, at 5:51 PM, Marc Chamberland wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I believe there is a little bug in the display of the time slice information in Gate v6.0.p01 (at least, I think it's a bug). When I run my simulations, it displays the following:
> 
> [Acquisition-0] ============= Source initialization =============
> [Acquisition-0]                                      
> [Acquisition-0] ============= Acquisition starts! =============
> [Acquisition-0] Simulation start time = 0 sec
> [Acquisition-0] Simulation end time   = 10 sec
> [Acquisition-0] Simulation will have  = 1000 run(s)
> [G4] Slice n° 0  | Time: 1e+07
> [G4] Slice n° 1  | Time: 1e+07
> [G4] Slice n° 2  | Time: 1e+07
> [G4] Slice n° 3  | Time: 1e+07
> [G4] Slice n° 4  | Time: 1e+07
> [G4] Slice n° 5  | Time: 1e+07
> [G4] Slice n° 6  | Time: 1e+07
> [G4] Slice n° 7  | Time: 1e+07
> [G4] Slice n° 8  | Time: 1e+07
> [G4] Slice n° 9  | Time: 1e+07
> [G4] Slice n° 10  | Time: 1e+07
> [G4] Slice n° 11  | Time: 1e+07
> [G4] Slice n° 12  | Time: 1e+07
> [G4] Slice n° 13  | Time: 1e+07
> [G4] Slice n° 14  | Time: 1e+07
> [G4] Slice n° 15  | Time: 1e+07
> [G4] Slice n° 16  | Time: 1e+07
> 
> 
> I think this should be displaying the actual time of the time slices, e.g.:
> 
> Time: 0.00
> Time: 0.01
> Time: 0.02
> etc.
> 
> It doesn't seem to have any effect on the actual simulation, though.
> 
> 
> Marc Chamberland, MSc
> PhD candidate (Medical Physics)
> Department of Physics
> Carleton University
> Ottawa (ON)
> 
> mchamber at connect.carleton.ca
> 
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