From: TRINH Minh Hieu (mhtrinh_at_gmail.com)
Date: Fri Oct 23 2009 - 10:52:39 CDT

Hi,

I reboot my computer and the problem is gone. Every thing work fine
now. It update the material and save it with save_state.
I was too hasty when I post it on vmd-l and sorry for that.
Thank you for your time, regards,

     TRINH M. Hieu

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 4:56 PM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>  Can you send me the startup output from your VMD session?
> This sounds to me like some kind of memory corruption problem.
> Since the VMD materials send state updates to the graphics driver,
> this may be some bizarre form of memory corruption occuring due to a
> buggy driver.  It works fine for me and for many others of course, so
> if you could provide the startup info from your system, that may help me
> narrow in on the potential cause.  What graphics driver version are you
> running?
>
> Cheers,
>  John Stone
>  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 03:57:49PM +0200, TRINH Minh Hieu wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm using VMD 1.8.7 on Fedora 8 x86_64
>> I created a new material by Graphics/Materials then I set one of my
>> rep in Graphics/Representations to my new material. The problem is
>> that if I click on another rep, with Opaque material for example, the
>> Material field does not update. This problem seems to only appear with
>> new created material.
>>
>> I also have problem when saving state with new materials. When I save
>> a state, the new material is saved but they are not set back to my
>> Representation when I load back the state.
>>
>> Does anyone have encounter the same problems ?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
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>>    CEA, IBEB, SBTN/LIRM,
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   M. TRINH Minh Hieu
   CEA, IBEB, SBTN/LIRM,
   F-30207 Bagnols-sur-Cèze, FRANCE
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