[MMTK] Visualization with VMD

[khinsen at cea.fr]

On May 27, 2005, at 16:53, Vasisht R. Tadigotla wrote:

>> The only other condition I can think of is that /usr/bin/vmd must be
>> executable.
>
> /usr/bin/vmd has the executable bit set. I tried changing it to
> /usr/local/bin/vmd just in case and it doesn't work. Both /usr/bin and
> /usr/local/bin are in my path. I don't seem to get any error messages. 
> Is
> there any way I can get information on what might be going wrong. I'm
> using VMD 1.8.3 if that makes any difference.

Does the vmd script work if you run it from the terminal, i.e.

	/usr/bin/vmd file.pdb

? If it does, and if PDBVIEWER is set correctly, then I don't know what 
could go wrong. MMTK just does

	os.system(os.environ['PDBVIEWER'] + ' -nt -e ' + script)

where script is the name of a temporary file that contains a script for 
VMD.

Something that you could try is make a copy of the vmd script under any 
other name and define that copy as PDBVIEWER. Then MMTK uses the 
generic PDB viewer code instead of the specialized vmd code.

Konrad.
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