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From: Ben Chern (futuredream.1_at_gmail.com)
Date: Tue Apr 01 2008 - 01:33:34 CDT

Axel,
Thanks for you advice.
I'll try to compile the source under linux.

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Axel Kohlmeyer <akohlmey_at_cmm.chem.upenn.edu>
wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Ben Chern wrote:
>
> BC> I want to show some chemical properties, e.g. bond energy, but I would
> not
> BC> wish to do that using script.
>
> ben,
>
> "stupid question(TM)":
> how do you plan to get those properties "into" VMD?
> and how do you plan to visualize them, i.e. how are
> they supposed to look like?
>
> before starting on a long and painful process where
> you may at the end find out, that you won't get what
> you planned, it may actually be a very good idea to
> prototype what you want to do in scripting.
>
> this is how many of the features in VMD started (and
> quite a few still are).
>
> BC> I have tried the CVS, but the error still exists.
> BC> Would you please send me a tar file of the Windows build area for VMD?
>
> also, have you considered using a linux/unix machine
> for development? it is infinitely more convenient, the
> way VMD "wants" to be built.
>
> just a few (curious) thoughts,
>
>
> axel.
>
>
> BC> Thank you very much.
> BC>
>
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-- 
Ben