[MMTK] MMTK with VMD on Mac OSX

[Ryan Bannen]

Thanks to Konrad and Vasisht for the help!  I've _almost_ got it working properly now.

The $PDBVIEWER path is now set to /usr/local/bin/vmd and I went ahead and created the .MacOSX directory 
with a proper "environment.plist" file in there with "PDBVIEWER" as a key with "/usr/local/bin/vmd" as it's string.

When I run the script that I had attached to my initial email, it now successfully launches VMD however neither 
the protein nor the .dcd file loads.   All I see is the standard VMD startup screen.  Is there an additional path 
that needs to be fixed?

Thanks again for your quick and helpful replies,

ryan.

----- Original Message -----
From: khinsen at cea.fr
Date: Thursday, July 21, 2005 2:05 am
Subject: Re: [MMTK] MMTK with VMD on Mac OSX

> On 21.07.2005, at 00:40, Ryan Bannen wrote:
> 
> > I think that the $PDBVIEWER variable is pointing to the right VMD 
> 
> > executable file.  For example when i type:
> >
> >       echo $PDBVIEWER
> >
> > it returns the following:
> >
> >       /Applications/VMD_1.8.2/VMD_1.8.2.app/Contents/vmd/vmd_MACOSX
> 
> It should point to  /usr/loca/bin/vmd, for two reasons:
> 
> 1) MMTK takes the executable name "vmd" as a sign for the PDB 
> viewer  
> being VMD. It then makes available the special VMD support, in  
> particular animation support. If the executable name is anything 
> else,  
> it is treated as a standard PDB viewer that can handle only a 
> single  
> PDB file.
> 
> 2) Starting the VMD binary directly requires that the starting 
> process  
> is a terminal. The script /usr/loca/bin/vmd opens a terminal window 
> and  
> starts VMD from there.
> 
> Konrad.
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