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From: Peter Kroon (p.c.kroon_at_rug.nl)
Date: Wed Aug 29 2018 - 10:04:02 CDT

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
>
>