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From: Ajasja Ljubetič (ajasja.ljubetic_at_gmail.com)
Date: Mon Mar 29 2010 - 08:09:36 CDT

Hello!

Confirmed crash on Win7_64bit and WinXp_32bit. (Using the 32bit cuda
precompiled distribution of VMD on an AMD Phenom Quadcore and GTS 250
graphics card).
The file vtfplugin.so is present under
{$VMD_INSTALL_DIR}\plugins\WIN32\molfile.
I was also unable to load another example vtf (
http://espressowiki.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/wiki/index.php/VTF_trajectory/structure/coordinate_format#Full_example_file).
VMD did not crash, but complained of an unrecognized keyword.

Best regards,
Ajasja Ljubetič

2010/3/25 Marek Maly <marek.maly_at_ujep.cz>

>
> Dear Olaf, John, Ajasja and Axel
>
> first of all thanks a lot for your replies !
>
> #1
> I found out that in our PC lab where Win XP 64 bit are installed
> VMD works perfectly with given VTF file.
>
> #2
> I have to confirm again that on my office PC (Win 32 bit) it does not
> work as well as on PC of my colleague (Windows 32 bit). Also on my
> emulated Win 32
> bit (Parallels Desktop) it does not work as well.
>
>
> #3 I have again to confirm a true mystery about remote connection.
> If I connect from my MAC (PowerBook Pro) using Viscosity
> (http://www.viscosityvpn.com/) and Remote Desktop Connection Client for
> Mac
> (
> http://www.tuaw.com/2009/11/01/microsoft-remote-desktop-connection-client-for-snow-leopard/
> )
> to my Office Windows machine and start VMD on my office machine using
> this remote connection it works !!!
> I am really curious about explanation of this strange phenomena.
>
> Anyway if I try to do the same experiment using OpenVPN and the standard
> Win Remote Desktop which are run from my emulated Windows 32 bit (on
> Parallels Desktop ) from the
> same MAC laptop, it does not work.
>
> #4
> Regarding to the status of transfer from linux to Win machine, it seems
> that Olaf did a great job and so the VMD can read without problems both
> types of VTF files (with unix
> or dos line endings) I confirmed this fact on my office machine using
> above mentioned Viscosity/RDC
> remote connection and I also verified this fact on my native OS X (Snow
> Leopard 10.6) installation of VMD
> (again v. 1.8.7 as in all cases of Windows ver.).
>
>
> Here:
>
> http://physics.ujep.cz/~mmaly/VTF/
>
> you can find VTF file which I am testing ( VFT_file.zip ) then also
> precise specifications of all computers/Win versions which I tried (
> WinXP_..... ) if on the
> end of the name of the picture is _OK it means that there it works, if
> there is _KO it means that there it
>
> does not work. I put there also three WinError_... snaps which illustrate
> VMD crash (
> sorry for Czech language ).
>
>
> So at the end it seems that it is somehow connected with version of Win
> system. It can also indicate that some important software or just .dll
> library is missing. Also we
> have here the mystery with remote connection.
>
> If anybody has any idea/suggestion what to try to make things work
> properly I would be really very very grateful !
> I would also appreciate if anybody who has Win installation of VMD can
> report if he succeeded to open given VTF trajectory
> file using his VMD installation or not. I am especially curious about Win
> 32 bit versions.
> It is important for me to have at least some statistic because I would like
> to have
> lesson for the students with their own laptops (and so of course different
> versions of OS - mainly Windows).
>
>
>
> Thank you in advance !
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Marek
>
>
>
>
>>
>>
>>
>> Dne Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:19:33 +0100 Olaf Lenz <lenzo_at_mpip-mainz.mpg.de>
>> napsal/-a:
>>
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>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> On 03/24/2010 11:31 AM, Marek Maly wrote:
>>>
>>>> I encountered a problem regarding visualisation of .VTF trajectory files
>>>> (which are produced by Espresso simul. software)
>>>> using VMD (v.1.8.7) under Windows XP (32 bit). Whenever I try to
>>>> visualise given .VTF file on my Win Office machine
>>>> I obtain immediate VMD crash refering to vtfplugin.so.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Did anybody encountered the same problem ? Is there any solution
>>>> available ? Does anybody know about another free software which is
>>>> possible to use under Windows (without any problems) for visualisation
>>>> of .VTF files ?
>>>>
>>>
>>> The only problem I know of occured in an older version and had to do
>>> with the windows line endings. However, I though that I had fixed that
>>> problem for VMD 1.8.7.
>>> I have never used VMD on Windows, so I cannot say much more on that. I
>>> thought that the vtfplugin-code is generic enough code to run also on
>>> Windows.
>>> If you are able to debug the code, I would be happy to hear of it, but
>>> otherwise I cannot test anything as I have no development Windows
>>> machine anywhere.
>>>
>>> Olaf
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>>
>>
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