Re: [PyMOL] compiled Pymol on MacOSX , The Pmw menu window does not open properly and Python Icon bouncing on dock

[David H. <li...@co...>]

Do you know about the fink builds of pymol?
http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/pymol-py26  .  You might
have more success modifying that package to pull the source from
subversion.

-David

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 11:48 AM, hari jayaram <ha...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi ,
> Because I wanted to use some of the Python API commands in scripts I wanted
> to install a distutils build of Pymol on my Snow Leopard System running
> 10.6.2 .
> I am using the svn version  3897.
> After I installed Pmw and added the fontconfig.h containing directory to my
> INCLUDE path and added other dylibs from /usr/X11R6/lib  to my include path
> , I finally got the build process to complete fine and I was able to get the
> pymol dark background cmd window to popup just fine . However the Pmw window
> did not appear and the system either crashed or the Python icon kept
> bouncing up and down and a crummily ghost-like Pmw window appeared briefly.
> When it did crash it gave me the error:
> Tk_MacOSXSetupTkNotifier: first [load] of TkAqua has to occur in the main
> thread!
> I know this is all because the cmd window is already up and there cannot be
> two GUI threads going and have seen some posts from Bill Scott about this
> issue , but can anyone help me troubleshoot this build.
> I want to start using the subversion builds instead of the MacPymol.App and
> am sure I can get over this building problem.
> Your help will be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks
> Hari
>
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