Thanks for your comments Paul. I see what we can do about the updates...
Cheers,
Carsten
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Emsley [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 11:04 PM
> To: Schubert, Carsten [PRDUS]; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: rot-trans zone toolbar button not found
>
> Schubert, Carsten [PRDUS] wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > On redhat El4 with coot 0.6-2283 (Centos-python-gtk2) the rot-trans
> > button in the toolbar does not show up.
> >
>
> Indeed.
>
> > Toggling the button in the preferences produces the following
> warning:
> >
> > *** (coot-real 4220: WARNING **: Widget not found:
> > model_toolbar_rot_trans_toolbutton
> >
>
> Toggling which button in the preferences?
>
> > The button is however present in the other modeling toolbar
> accessible
> > from Calculate -> Model/Fit/Refine
> >
>
> That's a different type of button
>
> > Any idea how to enable/find it for the regular toolbar?
> >
>
> It is not possible - well, not without a good deal of work, that is.
>
> The underlying issue is that CentOS4 (and RHEL4) is hideously old. The
> widget set (GTK+) with which it is distributed is too old to support
> the
> menu toggle-button for the rotate/translate function. I wasted about
2
> weeks trying to get CentOS4 to build a more modern GTK+ version "by
> hand", so that it could be bundled - but eventually I gave up.
>
> Upgrade! You know you want to.
>
> Paul.
>
>
