Hi Warren & CCP4ers,
first of all, it is great that at least one application, MacPyMOL,
works again in stereo under Leopard! It is good if developers like you
and users like us tell Apple how important a working stereo 3D is.
Personally, I consider stereo 3D as VERY important and would like to
see Tiger's X11 stereo capabilities also under Leopard. I think, I've
made this point clear in a couple of e-mails to Apple's X11 users
list, and from the responses, it seems, that Apple is willing to spend
time and money for solving this issue. However, until X11 stereo has
been fixed under Leopard, I stick to Tiger on my MacPro and use
Leopard on my laptop, only.
Best regards,
Dirk.
Am 17.09.2008 um 02:26 schrieb Warren DeLano:
CCP4bb,
Some graphics news: Full operating-system support for stereo 3D has
at
last been restored on Mac OS X Leopard, but NOT in Leopard's X11 just
yet (the Xquartz open-source community will hopefully soon remedy
this...).
While today's fix is great for native Mac OpenGL applications like
MacPyMOL, my fear is that other critical applications will still be
unable to support stereo 3D under Leopard because of a reliance upon
X11/GLX for OpenGL.
While Qt-based programs may now work fine in stereo 3D, X11-based apps
such as open-source PyMOL are definitely still mono 3D-only under
Leopard 10.5.5.
Perhaps some of the other software developers can chime in soon
regarding their support for stereo 3D under Mac OS X Leopard
10.5.5? At
the very least, I am thinking of:
ccp4mg, O, coot, and VIDA/AFITT, as well as perhaps Chimera, VMD, and
MOE.
Apologies if I left out something important! Along those lines, what
other "go to" molecular graphics apps are crystallographers using on
Macs these days? In other words, who else should we/Apple lean on?
Also, do crystallographers still consider stereo 3D to be a
high-priority or must-have feature in a graphics workstation?
Cheers,
Warren
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