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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon Aug 20 2012 - 16:43:36 CDT

Ramon,
  Good to know that FLTK 1.3.0 worked for you. The VMD 1.9.1 builds
were done using FLTK version 1.1.10, except for the bleeding-edge
64-bit MacOS X builds, which had to use FLTK 1.3.0. If FLTK 1.3.0 is
working well for you, then you may want to try compiling VMD from source
using your FLTK 1.3.0 build and see how that does. The windows such
as the Tk console and various VMD plugins aren't using FLTK, but rather
the Tcl/Tk libraries, which have their own font handling which is
completely separate. I may get around to making new VMD test builds
that use later versions of FLTK in the next month or two if you want to
wait, but otherwise you can go ahead and build from source yourself.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:29:46AM +0300, Ramon Guixà wrote:
> Hi Josh,
>
> Thanks for your email.
> I followed your instructions, compiled FLTK in my computer (version
> fltk-1.3.0) and tested the demo included. All widgets from the demo
> exhibited perfect font ratios (please see image1 attached, where I compare
> side to side FLTK and VMD on the same computer). It seems like fonts do
> not rescale properly not only at VMD main window but also other windows
> widgets, such as the molefacture plugin, where fonts actually don't
> feet... (please see image2). Regarding the tk console, fonts were also
> really small although I followed and older thread where you recommended to
> create a .tkconrc and that solved the problem.
>
> Straight after I compiled FLTK, I reinstalled vmd, just in case but the
> problem persists. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks!
> Ramon-
> ----Original Message-----
> From: John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
> To: GUIXA GONZALEZ, RAMON <rguixa_at_imim.es>
> Cc: vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu <vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
> Subject: Re: vmd-l: FLTK fonts
> Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 17:57:24 +0200
>
> Hi,
> We haven't made any changes to VMD itself that should have any affect
> on FLTK font sizes, however the latest versions of VMD are using a newer
> version of FLTK, and the behavior of FLTK itself may indeed have changed.
> If you compile FLTK on your machine and run the example applications that
> come with it, do they exhibit the same font size problem that you see when
> you're running VMD 1.9.1?
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 04:26:24PM +0200, GUIXA GONZALEZ, RAMON wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > Is there any way to increase the fonts of vmd main window and menus? I have been using vmd for a long time now and it's only the last version (1.9.1) the one yielding really small font sizes. I tried in up to 3 different computers and get the same font size so now I am wondering whether this new version is meant to have this fonts?
> >
> > Thanks in advance 

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