From: Vitaly Vostrikov (vvostri_at_uark.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 05 2010 - 22:22:12 CST

Just to let everyone know: the new version (1.6) solves the problem.

Vitaly

----- Original Message -----
From: Vitaly Vostrikov <vvostri_at_uark.edu>
Date: Monday, January 4, 2010 12:04 pm
Subject: Re: vmd-l: VMD-Xplor interface problem
To: John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
Cc: vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu

> Dear John,
>
> Thank you for responding.
> I have communicated with Charles Schwieters. He suggested running
> ./configure script with "-include_extra_libs" switch, but it did
> not help.
>
> He also mentioned that the new version of VMD-Xplor will be
> released soon. Hopefully it will solve the problem.
>
> Vitaly
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
> Date: Sunday, January 3, 2010 11:23 pm
> Subject: Re: vmd-l: VMD-Xplor interface problem
> To: Vitaly Vostrikov <vvostri_at_uark.edu>
> Cc: vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> >
> > Vitaly,
> > You'll need to check with Charles Schwieters, but my guess on
> > this is
> > that the problem you're having is caused by the older version of
> > Tcl/Tkthat VMD-XPLOR is compiled against. The current builds of
> > the standard
> > VMD distribution use a much newer Tcl/Tk distribution as we ran
> > into trouble
> > with older revs of Tcl/Tk conflicting with the use of the SCIM
> > input manager
> > used by international researchers with alternative character sets
> > and
> > keyboard/input layouts. I'd suggest contacting the VMD-XPLOR
> guys via
> > the email link on the bottom of their docs page:
> > http://vmd-xplor.cit.nih.gov/
> >
> > Cheers,
> > John Stone
> > vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 08:18:01PM -0600, Vitaly Vostrikov wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > First of all, I am not sure if this is the correct mailing list
> > to ask a question about VMD-Xplor. I apologize if I am wrong.
> > >
> > > The problem is that the keyboard input is not accepted in the
> VMD-
> > Xplor menus: the only thing i can do is highlight the values with
> a
> > mouse. For instance, when I try to load the NOEs, the "NOE
> > constraint filename" field does not allow editing the default
> > "*noe*.tbl" value. I can get around this by typing from VMD
> console
> > "set noeWid_noeFilename protG_NOE.tbl", but it would have been
> > easier to use the graphical interface.
> > >
> > > It looks like the problem is with some of the dependencies. I
> > don't have this issue with the original VMD (1.8.7). I use pre-
> > compiled VMD-Xplor 1.5 on Red Hat Linux Enterprise 5.
> > >
> > > Thank you.
> >
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> >
>