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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Jul 22 2016 - 11:30:06 CDT

Tatiana,
  Thanks for sharing the screen shot. I will continue to look for
a solution to this issue with FLTK/Tk. If there's some hack we can
do, even something simple akin to Apple's retina display approach
(where all GUI elements are drawn at 2x their original size) within
the VMD code itself I will let people know. Conversely, I would be
interested to know if anyone has seen anything available in X servers
that would address this. Apple's retina approach was done on the
windowing system size rather than in the apps. In the Apple approach,
the apps have to be modified if they actually want to use the full
display resolution, which makes apps forward-compatible by default,
but requires extra effort to use full display resolution.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 11:10:43AM +0200, Tatiana Kuznetsova wrote:
> Dear VMD developers
>
> Please see attached screenshot of VMD 1.9.3beta on a 13-inch 277dpi
> display (can be used to weed those with less than 20/20 vision).
>
> Regards
>
> Tatiana Kuznetsova
>
> On 2016-07-21 23:35, John Stone wrote:
> >I've posted more VMD 1.9.3 beta 1 binaries today, including
> >32-bit Windows builds, and several special builds for batch mode
> >or parallel runs on Cray supercomputers, EGL-based off-screen rendering,
> >and I expect a more to follow tomorrow afternoon after further testing.
> >
> >Cheers,
> > John Stone
> > vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> >
> >On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 11:33:49PM -0500, John Stone wrote:
> >>Dear VMD-L,
> >> I've just start posting builds of VMD 1.9.3 beta 1 for
> >>download. I currently have two Linux builds, MacOS, and
> >>the Blue Waters MPI build posted. I expect to have several
> >>more builds posted tomorrow as compilations progress.
> >>
> >>I'll be populating the VMD 1.9.3 release page with descriptions of
> >>the various new features after I get the builds posted.
> >>
> >>Please give the new version a spin and let me know how well it
> >>works for you, and particularly if you encounter any problems.
> >>
> >>Cheers,
> >> John Stone
> >> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> >>
> >>--
> >>NIH Center for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
> >>Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
> >>University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
> >>http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/ Phone: 217-244-3349
> >>http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
> 

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NIH Center for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/           Phone: 217-244-3349
http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/