From: Nuno Sousa Cerqueira (nscerque_at_fc.up.pt)
Date: Thu Mar 03 2016 - 15:28:24 CST

Thanks for the clarification.

A qui, 3/03/2016, 21:01, Vlad Cojocaru <vlad.cojocaru_at_mpi-muenster.mpg.de>
escreveu:

> Alternatively, you can build VMD from source against tcl/tk 8.6 ...
> compiling VMD is not trivial but its doable and works well.
>
> Vlad
>
> On March 3, 2016 7:59:50 PM GMT+01:00, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> Aside from what Axel mentioned, I'm not sure what your usage of the TkPNG
>> is intended for, but I have recently added PNG support to developmental
>> versions of VMD 1.9.3 to allow the "Snapshot" and various internal
>> ray tracing engines to save images directly to PNG format.
>> If you need PNG capabilities specifically within Tk that's interesting
>> and something I want to know more about. I haven't looked at the TkPNG
>> package, but I would be concerned about whatever library dependencies it
>> might carry with it. If it is possible to build it and the rest of VMD
>> against the same PNG library, then this might be relatively straightforward.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> John
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 01:52:12PM -0500, Axel Kohlmeyer wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 12:19 PM, Nuno Sousa Cerqueira
>>> <nscerqueira_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Tcl/Tk 8.6 already allows the use of png fie format but not in version 8.5.
>>>>
>>>> That???s why I was asking for the version 8.6 in VMD
>>>>
>>>> Another way to do this involves the used of the TkPNG package. When I
>>>> compile it under macOS it works perfectly and wish8.5 behaves like wish8.6.
>>>> However when I run the same code in VMD it gives the following error:
>>>>
>>>> dlopen(/Library/Tcl/lib/tkpng0.9/libtkpng0.9.dylib, 6): no suitable image
>>>> found. Did find:
>>>> /Library/Tcl/lib/tkpng0.9/libtkpng0.9.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Any workaround for this issue ?
>>>>
>>>
>>> use a suitable netpbm tool to convert the image into a format
>>> supported with older version?
>>>
>>> axel.
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Nuno
>>>> ------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Nuno M. F. Sousa A. Cerqueira
>>>> Chemistry Department
>>>> Faculty of Sciences
>>>> University of Porto
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>>>> 4169-007 Porto
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>>>> email: nscerque_at_fc.up.pt
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 03 Mar 2016, at 16:28, Nuno Sousa Cerqueira <nscerqueira_at_gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello to all,
>>>>
>>>> Is there any version of VMD compiled with tcl and tk 8.6 ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> nuno
>>>> ------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Nuno M. F. Sousa A. Cerqueira
>>>> Chemistry Department
>>>> Faculty of Sciences
>>>> University of Porto
>>>> Rua do Campo Alegre, s/n
>>>> 4169-007 Porto
>>>> Portugal
>>>> Tel: +351 220402501
>>>> Fax: +351 220
>>>> 402 009
>>>> email: nscerque_at_fc.up.pt
>>>> website: http://www.fc.up.pt/pessoas/nscerque
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>> Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer akohlmey_at_gmail.com http://goo.gl/1wk0
>>> College of Science & Technology, Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA
>>> International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste. Italy.
>>>
>>
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