VMD-L Mailing List

From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 20 2002 - 10:12:40 CDT

Hi Christian,
  Yes, the pre-release version for MacOS X was broken, the plugins didn't
work correctly, so nothing could be loaded. This and many other problems
have recently been fixed, so I expect to release a new pre-release version
shortly. I'll be announcing it on VMD-L as soon as it is ready, hopefully
in the next day or two.

FYI for all Mac people:
     We have the first native version of VMD for MacOS X running now!
  It lacks Tk, and still has some performance issues, but
  it runs, and no longer requires XFree!!! We will begin providing two
  MacOS X versions, a "Mesa" version which requires XFree, and a native
  version which is based on the native OpenGL and a native build of FLTK.
  Another factor with the native version is that the distribution mechanism
  is now more complicated, since the native version has to package up
  resources, which don't behave well with the standard tar file and make-based
  installation mechanism. We are working on a Mac-specific installation
  and distribution mechanism, but I don't think we'll have it quite ready
  for the next pre-release, so for now the only people that'll probably be
  able to use the native version will be people that have the MacOS X
  developer tools installed, and can run the "Rez" program to fix the
  installed VMD binary. I'll write more about this when we release the
  next alpha version.

Thanks,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 03:01:20PM +0200, Christian Simon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have installed vmd-1.8a.10 on a MacOSX PowerbookG4. XDarwin, Tcl/Tk etc...
> have been installed from Fink.
>
>
>
> Here is the problem: I am unable to load any trajectory or configuration,
> since in the File->Load form, the "Primary File Type" and "Secondary File Type"
> columns are empty.
>
>
>
> Babel seems correctly installed, I moved it to /usr/local/babel, together
> with the *.lis files, and defined VMD_BABELBIN and BABEL_DIR accordingly.
> I inserted a call /usr/local/babel/babel in the script
> /usr/local/bin/vmd to check: it does not complain...
>
> I do not have any problem with vmd-1.7.1.
>
> Does anyone have any idea ?
>
> PS: I otherwise use vmd-1.8a.10 under Linux, and the Dynamical Bonds are great !
> --
> Christian SIMON
> The Center for Molecular Modeling (CMM, Rm. 141I)
> University of Pennsylvania, Tel: (215)-573-4773
> Department of Chemistry, Box 127 Fax: (215)-573-6233
> 231 S. 34th St.
> Philadelphia, PA 19104-6323 USA 

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