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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon Oct 05 2009 - 20:46:10 CDT

Hi,
  Yes, I just got back from travelling and will begin working
on this in the next few days. I'll let people know when I have
a test version available that addresses this issue.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 12:40:16AM +0200, MyLinkka wrote:
> Expecting the special version here too!
> Thanks for the updated news!
>
> Ting
>
> John Stone wrote:
> >Hi,
> > From your description, it sounds like you have another
> >package on your machine that has installed a conflicting version
> >of the Tcl/Tk libraries, and has put their (conflicting) versions
> >into the global Windows DLL search path such that they override
> >the ones VMD intends to use. You can determine if this is the case
> >by searching for other Tcl/Tk libs like this:
> > cd c:\
> > dir /s tcl*.dll
> >
> >If you see any other than the ones in the VMD installation
> >directory, then that's a likely cause of your problem.
> >The other package(s) that have done this are at fault, as
> >they should _not_ be putting their own DLLs into the global
> >library search path. In any case, try that out and let me know
> >what turns up. I am working on making a special build of VMD
> >that uses statically linked Tcl/Tk libs specifically to avoid
> >this problem which has become much more prevalent recently due to
> >the actions of a few poorly packaged applications that are popular
> >in our field...
> >
> >Cheers,
> > John Stone
> > vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> >
> >On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 08:57:00PM -0600, Ronald Salesky wrote:
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I installed a copy of VMD for my home laptop and VMD
> >>crashes right after launch. The OS is WinXP media center
> >>edition. System memory 1 GB. I've tried the suggestions to
> >>update the graphics driver w/ no improvement. I also set
> >>the environment variable VMDSIMPLEGRAPHICS to 1 also w/ no
> >>improvement.
> >>
> >>Any suggestions?
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>
> >>Ron
> >>
> >>PS: graphics driver is Intel 945GM Express chipset. Not
> >>the world's hottest laptop, but I just want to go through
> >>the manuals at home to increase my VMD knowledge for the
> >>real research at university.
> >>
> >
> > 

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