Re: [PyMOL] pymol 0.90 on redhat 9.0 - no Tk window

[Florian N. <fn...@un...>]

On 24 oct. 03, at 11:59, Warren L. DeLano wrote:

> Florian,
>
> The main trick is to use an X11/Fink build of PyMOL.  Under 10.3, I'm
> hoping OpenGL performance under X11 will be more that of the native
> version -- any early returns on this yet?

I'm using Panther and it seems that the OpenGL performance is on par 
with the native version (opinion based on frame rate performance)
BTW, Panther has Python 2.3 compiled with GCC 3.3.


> Finally, there is a native Tcl/Tk Aqua port which doesn't require X11,
> and which in theory at least would enable a native-like GUI without
> having to write Aqua code directly.

Indeed, I was thinking about something like that.

> However I've heard that there are
> stability problems with this Tcl/Tk, and I'm not sure Python's Tkinter
> can even work with it.

It looks like some people made it work:
<http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pythonmac-sig/2003-August/008474.html>
Do you want to give it a try?