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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_vitae.cmm.upenn.edu)
Date: Mon Dec 19 2005 - 14:59:27 CST

On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, John Stone wrote:

JS> Vlad,
JS> What's going on in VMD when you get those messages? Generally speaking,
JS> this is the X server complaining about an out of range value. It could be
JS> almost anything, but I'm guessing it's in response to a window resize event
JS> or something like that, perhaps caused by an interaction with your window
JS> manager. Without more info there's no way for me to guess what's causing
JS> those, all I can tell you is that they are being printed by the lowest level
JS> Xlib calls, which could be in VMD, FLTK, or Tk, no way to know which without
JS> more information.

hi,

from previous (painful) experience, i would guess that this is a
result from the code being linked to a version of a library, that
did not match the header files used.

vlad, does this happen to the released version of VMD or only with
the one you compiled yourself?

axel.

JS>
JS> John Stone
JS> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
JS>
JS>
JS> On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 08:42:18PM +0100, Cojocaru,Vlad wrote:
JS> > Dear vmd users,
JS> > Recently I get a strage message in the vmd console repetitively
JS> (it appears sometimes 100 times in a row) -- see below --. Vmd runs
JS> properly without any problems, however the message is a bit annoying
JS> when I want to monitor commands in the vmd console ... so I was just
JS> wondering whether somebody can explain to me what is this message..
JS> >
JS> > Thanks
JS> > vlad
JS> >
JS> >
JS> > X_ChangeProperty: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) 0x40
JS> > X_ChangeProperty: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) 0x40
JS> > X_ChangeProperty: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) 0x40
JS> > X_ChangeProperty: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) 0x40
JS> > X_ChangeProperty: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) 0x40
JS> > X_ChangeProperty: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) 0x40
JS> >
JS>
JS> 

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