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From: Peter Kroon (p.c.kroon_at_rug.nl)
Date: Wed Aug 29 2018 - 10:15:22 CDT

And to follow up, I recompiled vmd with TCL/TK 8.5, and they still don't
work :'(

I confirmed that I have version 8.5 by writing 'puts $tcl_version' in
the console.

Peter

On 29-08-18 17:04, Peter Kroon wrote:
> Hi Josh,
>
>
> thanks for the swift reply. Is there any hope that those will be updated
> somewhere in the future, or should they be considered unmaintained and
> deprecated?
>
>
> Peter
>
>
> On 28-08-18 14:21, Vermaas, Joshua wrote:
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>> Some of the plugins are picky, and require Tcl 8.5. If you use 8.6
>> with them, some of the commands used to draw the windows break, and
>> you get the blank displays you've encountered.
>>
>> -Josh
>>  
>>  
>>
>> On 2018-08-28 04:54:52-06:00 owner-vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have a home-compiled version of VMD 1.9.3, and some plugins (e.g.
>> contact map and timeline) don't show any text in their interface
>> windows. There are (were?) more messages on this list with the same
>> issue, but no solutions other than using the precompiled binaries. I
>> compiled my VMD and plugins with the system TCL 8.6.
>>
>> The console spews the following errors:
>>
>> vmd > X_QueryColors: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for
>> operation) 0xff000000
>> XRequest.139: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 0x184
>> XRequest.139: RenderBadPicture (invalid Picture parameter) 0x6800063
>> XRequest.139: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 0x184
>> XRequest.139: RenderBadPicture (invalid Picture parameter) 0x6800067
>> XRequest.139: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 0x184
>> XRequest.139: RenderBadPicture (invalid Picture parameter) 0x6800069
>> XRequest.139: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 0x184
>> XRequest.139: RenderBadPicture (invalid Picture parameter) 0x6800082
>>
>> etc...
>>
>> Does anyone have any blinding insight in how I can further debug or fix
>> this?
>>
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>
>