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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Sun Jan 03 2010 - 21:38:24 CST

Vitaly,
  You'll need to check with Charles Schwieters, but my guess on this is
that the problem you're having is caused by the older version of Tcl/Tk
that VMD-XPLOR is compiled against. The current builds of the standard
VMD distribution use a much newer Tcl/Tk distribution as we ran into trouble
with older revs of Tcl/Tk conflicting with the use of the SCIM input manager
used by international researchers with alternative character sets and
keyboard/input layouts. I'd suggest contacting the VMD-XPLOR guys via
the email link on the bottom of their docs page:
  http://vmd-xplor.cit.nih.gov/

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 08:18:01PM -0600, Vitaly Vostrikov wrote:
> Hello,
>
> First of all, I am not sure if this is the correct mailing list to ask a question about VMD-Xplor. I apologize if I am wrong.
>
> The problem is that the keyboard input is not accepted in the VMD-Xplor menus: the only thing i can do is highlight the values with a mouse. For instance, when I try to load the NOEs, the "NOE constraint filename" field does not allow editing the default "*noe*.tbl" value. I can get around this by typing from VMD console "set noeWid_noeFilename protG_NOE.tbl", but it would have been easier to use the graphical interface.
>
> It looks like the problem is with some of the dependencies. I don't have this issue with the original VMD (1.8.7). I use pre-compiled VMD-Xplor 1.5 on Red Hat Linux Enterprise 5.
>
> Thank you. 

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