[xcrysden] Error making animation in xcrysden 1.5.60 on ubuntu 16.04

[Tone Kokalj]

On Sun, 2016-11-06 at 23:16 -0500, Allen Majewski wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> error message text:  http://pastebin.com/raw/AJvvx6s4
> Error making animation of PWSCF outfile
> XCrysDen version: 1.5.60
> Tkinter version: 8.6
> python version: 2.7.12
> OS: Ubuntu 16
> 
> There is an error using XCrysDen 1.5.60 to create an animation of a
> pwo (pwscf output) file.  The animation appears to be recording,
> however this error is thrown when I click "Save" in the dialogue that
> appears after clicking "Stop recording and save." I repeated the
> error on two different machines with different hardware, but the same
> software.

I cannot reproduce your error (I suspect the error depends on the
version of BWidget package). Anyway on the basis of the your provided
error log, I made a fix.

Please can you check if it works on your side. Copy the  attached
"edit.tcl" file into $XCRYSDEN_TOPDIR/Tcl (where XCRYSDEN_TOPDIR is the
root directory of your xcrysden installation; if you are using ubuntu
xcrysden version, copy the file to /usr/share/xcrysden/Tcl/). 


If it does not work then the workaround is to defined the EDITOR
environmental variable. For example (for bash):

export EDITOR=emacs (or any other editor of your choice)
xcrysden


Best regards, Tone
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