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From: Vlad Cojocaru (Vlad.Cojocaru_at_eml-r.villa-bosch.de)
Date: Tue Feb 03 2009 - 08:22:24 CST

Dear John, Dear vmd users,

I am wondering if somebody could give me an advice on how could I add a
new, customized representation style to VMD. I mean code it and then add
it to the Graphics-Representations menu in VMD. I assume recompilation
of VMD is required for this.

A good starting point would be for instance to modify the "New Cartoon"
representation to apply it to other residues than proteins. First it
would be helpful to know in which source files are the representations
defined. Then, extract the code that produces the New Cartoon
representation. Modify it to my own purposes. Could somebody indicate me
where this code is located within the source code?

Is there a way to load such a new representation style as an external
module (e.g. tcl) without the need to recompile vmd ?

Thanks for any ideas on this

Greetings
vlad 

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