Re: How to add a C code to NAMD properly?

From: Giacomo Fiorin (giacomo.fiorin_at_gmail.com)
Date: Sun Dec 16 2018 - 22:36:26 CST

Hello Faramarz, the pertinent options are described here:
https://colvars.github.io/colvars-refman-namd/colvars-refman-namd.html#colvar|scriptedFunction

On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 1:00 PM Faramarz Joodaki <fjoodaki_at_my.uri.edu>
wrote:

> Hi everyone!
>
> According to Haichuan's guidance, I am trying to do some runtime
> calculations over a MD simulation by using Colvars. I would like to pass
> two parameters of Colvars to a function in the NAMD configuration file to
> apply my calculation on them. For example, the function in the NAMD
> configuration file can be:
>
> namespace eval funca { }
> proc calc_funca {arg1 arg2} {...}
>
> - arg1 can be Cartesian coordinate
> - arg2 can be a distance
>
> My question is how can I define these two variables in colvars at the same
> time and pass them to a function in the NAMD configuration file?
>
> Best Regards,
> Faramarz
>
> On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 12:50 PM Faramarz Joodaki <fjoodaki_at_my.uri.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear Haochuan,
>>
>> Thank you for your guidance!
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Faramarz
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 8:33 PM <yjcoshc_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Faramarz,
>>>
>>> Please copy the email to the NAMD mailing list. This may give hints for
>>> other people who have the same question.
>>>
>>> As for your question, I am not very sure whether following code works:
>>>
>>> proc calc_funca {args} {
>>>
>>> set cartesian [lindex $args 0]
>>>
>>> set distance [lindex $args 1]
>>>
>>> }
>>>
>>> It may require some trying and debugging, but basically you can use puts
>>> to output the args to stdout and see the format of arguments from NAMD log.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Haochuan Chen
>>>
>>> 在 2018年12月15日 09:05, Faramarz Joodaki 写道:
>>>
>>> Dear Haochuan,
>>>
>>> Thanks again for your help! I have another question. I would be so
>>> grateful if you could guide me with this matter. How can I pass two or more
>>> parameters from colvars to the function in NAMD configuration file. For
>>> example:
>>>
>>> namespace eval funca { }
>>> proc calc_funca {arg1 arg2} {...}
>>>
>>>
>>> - arg1 can be cartesian coordinate
>>> - arg2 can be a distance
>>>
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>> Faramarz
>>>
>>> On Sat, Dec 8, 2018 at 1:28 PM Faramarz Joodaki <fjoodaki_at_my.uri.edu>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear Haochuan,
>>>>
>>>> Thank you very much for your complete explanation! So it seems that I
>>>> need to use TCL syntax for this kind of scripting.
>>>>
>>>> Best Regards,
>>>> Faramarz
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Dec 8, 2018 at 6:55 AM <yjcoshc_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Faramarz,
>>>>>
>>>>> In the NAMD configuration you can enable colvars and source this TCL
>>>>> script:
>>>>>
>>>>> namespace eval funca { }
>>>>> proc calc_funca {args} {
>>>>> puts $args
>>>>> set x0 [lindex [lindex $args 0] 0]
>>>>> set y0 [lindex [lindex $args 0] 1]
>>>>> set z0 [lindex [lindex $args 0] 2]
>>>>> return [expr $x0 + $y0 + $z0]
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> In the colvars file:
>>>>>
>>>>> colvar {
>>>>> name a
>>>>> scriptedFunction funca
>>>>>
>>>>> cartesian {
>>>>> atoms {atomNumbers {5}}
>>>>> }
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> Then the x, y and z coordinates of the atom 5 will be added up and
>>>>> outputted to the colvars trajectory file. A more comprehensive example is
>>>>> in
>>>>> https://github.com/Colvars/colvars/blob/master/colvartools/pathCV.tcl
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Haochuan Chen
>>>>>
>>>>> 在 2018年12月08日 10:56, Faramarz Joodaki 写道:
>>>>>
>>>>> Dear Haochuan,
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you again for your great guidance! Since I am new in colvars and
>>>>> scriptedFunction. I would be so grateful if you could give me an example
>>>>> about this kind of scripting. For example, if we assume x, y, and z are
>>>>> atom coordinates, how can we write x+y+z code in this kind of scripting?
>>>>>
>>>>> Best Regards,
>>>>> Faramarz
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 8:51 PM Faramarz Joodaki <fjoodaki_at_my.uri.edu>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Dear Haochuan,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thank you for your guidance! I will try your method and if I have any
>>>>>> questions, I will ask you about that.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best Regards,
>>>>>> Faramarz
>>>>>>
>>>>>> > On Dec 5, 2018, at 8:45 PM, yjcoshc <yjcoshc_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Haochuan
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>

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Giacomo Fiorin
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Contractor, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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