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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 15 2007 - 15:42:52 CDT

Hi,
  I'm planning to try the new Tcl/Tk code on development builds soon,
and I'll let you guys know when I have them posted so you can try them out.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 12:57:16PM -0700, Brian Kidd wrote:
> Hi Marc,
>
> Dan Gordon suggested installing the latest tcl/tk from version
> tracker in a post from late May 2007. To quote his post:
>
> >Hello,
> >
> >For those intel mac users who, like me, are annoyed by dropped
> >keystrokes and other buggy behaviour of TkColsole when using VMD: I
> >noticed that there is a new version (8.4.14) of tcl/tk available at
> >VersionTracker (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/
> >16923). Installation of the new version seems to fix the problems.
>
>
> Installing the new version actually has worked very well for me and
> now I can use the tk console without any of the annoying console
> problems such as missing characters during typing or having the
> console window freeze. Note that Dan also advised caution because in
> his experience the several of the VMD plugins crashed. I'm not sure
> what this means exactly and I haven't seen this behavior on my
> system. However, maybe this is because I'm running tcl scripts that
> don't rely on plugins and don't use the plugins very often. For what
> it's worth, I'm using VMD 1.8.6 on a mactel.
>
> -Brian
>
>
> On Jun 15, 2007, at 7:21 AM, Marc Baaden wrote:
>
> >
> >Hi,
> >
> >quoting an older message, I wonder whether any progress has been made
> >on the Tk Console front for Mac users. The buggy behavior can be very
> >annoying, in particular when the console just remains stuck for an
> >hour
> >or so..
> >..anything one can do to try help debug this? Did anybody find a
> >workaround?
> >
> >Thanks in advance,
> >Marc
> >
> >>>From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
> >>>Date: Wed Jan 17 2007 - 15:59:16 CST
> >>>In reply to: Eric Peterson: "Tk console issues"
> >>>Eric,
> >>> I've witnessed a number of strange behaviors with the MacOS X
> >>>version of Tk running on the x86 macs, some of which were pointed
> >>>out by other observant users like yourself. I'm planning on
> >>>building
> >>>an updated version of Tk shortly to see if the newer versions have
> >>>corrected these issues. The FLTK toolkit used by the main VMD
> >>>graphical interfaces also has a few small bugs on MacOS X Intel.
> >>>The problems I've noticed on the x86 macs include unusual mouse
> >>>cursor bitmap images, dropped keystrokes in Tk windows, incorrect
> >>>mouse focus behavior when switching windows, and internal Tk
> >>>debugging messages being printed under some circumstances. I've
> >>>previously tried using the version of Tk that Apple ships, but
> >>>their
> >>>version is based on an older Tk release and has more bugs than the
> >>>version I compiled myself. I'll have to get back to you on this
> >>>after I test the newest Tk release and see if things have improved
> >>>on this front.
> >>> John Stone
> >>> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> >
> >--
> > Dr. Marc Baaden - Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Paris
> > mailto:baaden_at_smplinux.de - http://www.baaden.ibpc.fr
> > FAX: +33 15841 5026 - Tel: +33 15841 5176 ou +33 609 843217
> >
> >
> > 

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