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From: Vermaas, Joshua (Joshua.Vermaas_at_nrel.gov)
Date: Wed Aug 29 2018 - 11:11:13 CDT

Hi Peter,

Now that you mention it, you are right! In my own compiled builds, these plugins are also broken. My advice was based on past experience with the "clone representations" and ruler plugins I use with some regularity, which didn't work with 8.6. I never tried using timeline or the contact map plugins, likely because they were broken in my install, and my own workflows were pretty much set before the plugins were released. Sorry for sending you down the wrong path. :(

In terms of them getting fixed, I'd say the likelihood is pretty high, as the author of the plugins is still at UIUC from what I understand. However, it clearly works for them, so I'm not sure what is wrong, since the graphical window is all drawn via Tcl...

-Josh

On 2018-08-29 09:15:29-06:00 Peter Kroon wrote:

And to follow up, I recompiled vmd with TCL/TK 8.5, and they still don't
work :'(

I confirmed that I have version 8.5 by writing 'puts $tcl_version' in
the console.

Peter

On 29-08-18 17:04, Peter Kroon wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>