Re: [Gchempaint-main] Re: building gchempaint with openbabel?

[Jean Bréfort]

Pav Lucistnik wrote:

> > I use XFree86 4.3 on my two boxes and have no problem. One of the two 
> > has an NVidia GeForce4 and I use it without the NVIDIA driver and 
> > without any problem (with 4.2 the NVIDIA driver was necessary).
> >    
>
> Is xv extension working for you? (try xvinfo)
>  
No, I did not compile video support in the kernel.

> > I am 
> > aware of an empty window problem in Gnome Crystal (and Gnome Chemistry 
> > Utils) with XFree86 4.2 without the NVIDIA driver (due to OpenGL 
> > problems) but it is the first time I hear of such a thing for GChemPaint 
> > which use the Gnome canvas for drawing. I don't use the latest Gnome 
> > libraries (I did not find the time to compile them) but I hope it will 
> > be the case next week end. Hopefully, your problem comes from the 0.3.1 
> > version. If it persists with the cvs or 0.3.2, run GChemPaint from a 
> > terminal to see if some message or warning is displayed and tell me.
> >    
>
> There are no messages in terminal. I also tried 0.2.1, there is painting
> area visible, but Tools window is still grey and empty, showing tooltips
> of buttons, which are not there.
>  
The tools window is created using libglade with the same procedure as 
for other dialogs. Are other dialogs (as the Properties box or the 
periodic table) properly drawn? I suppose that liglade should emit  a 
warning at least if there were problems with the glade file.

Best regards,

Jean