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From: Jérôme Hénin (jerome.henin_at_ibpc.fr)
Date: Mon May 02 2016 - 11:26:13 CDT

>From recent experience, you can add RMSD Visualizer to the list of plugins
that will need an update for Tk 8.6.

Cheers,
Jerome

On 2 May 2016 at 17:47, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
> Yes. My recollection is that aside from the clone reps GUI, there are
> (were?) one or two other plugins that also need to be revised to work
> properly on Tk 8.6.x when I last tested it.
>
> I have a full Tcl/Tk 8.6 test build of VMD on ARM (because Tk 8.5.x had
> some serious problems on ARM) that I can use for testing, but I haven't
> had a chance to work on fixing the affected plugins yet.
>
> Cheers,
> John
>
> On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 05:36:17PM +0200, Jérôme Hénin wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > Indeed, apparently some of the stuff is just not compatible with
> Tcl/Tk
> > 8.6. It works fine with 8.5.
> > Cheers,
> > Jerome
> > On 8 April 2016 at 16:56, Nuno Sousa Cerqueira <[1]
> nscerqueira_at_gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > Hello to all,
> > About the tcl and tk 8.6 versions I think that the one present in
> VMD
> > A should be updated.
> > There is an issue regarding the addition of buttons on text widgets
> on
> > VMD. When scrolling down the text widget, they will appear as I
> show in
> > the figure (blurred).A
> > The script with the buttons embedded on the text widget can be found
> > at:A [2]
> http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~saul/personal/archives/Tcl-Tk_stuff/tcl_examples/
> > I thought that A it was a problem of tk8.6 and I contacted the
> tcl/tk
> > development team.A However, they told me that this issue was
> corrected
> > a long time ago and if we update the tk8.6 it no longer exists.
> This is
> > true on the operating system (my case mac ) but not in VMD where the
> > problem remains.
> > I would suggest therefore that A the tk8.6 version on VMD should be
> > update.
> > Maybe it would also correct some minor errors on the widgets.
> > Regards,
> > NunoA
> > ______________________________________________
> > 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 009A
> > email:A [3]nscerque_at_fc.up.pt
> > website:A [4]http://www.fc.up.pt/pessoas/nscerque
> >
> > On 08 Apr 2016, at 15:14, John Stone <[5]johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
> wrote:
> > I can't check now, butA
> >
> > References
> >
> > Visible links
> > 1. mailto:nscerqueira_at_gmail.com
> > 2.
> http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~saul/personal/archives/Tcl-Tk_stuff/tcl_examples/
> > 3. mailto:nscerque_at_fc.up.pt
> > 4. http://www.fc.up.pt/pessoas/nscerque
> > 5. mailto:johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
>
>
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