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From: Daniel Holloway (deholloway_at_gmx.com)
Date: Tue Jun 07 2011 - 05:07:42 CDT

Thanks for the suggestions Axel and Ajasja. Escaping the spaces didn't
work, so I took the move-the-executable option. Using curly braces
instead of double-quotes allowed the backslashes to pass through OK.
Substituting forward slashes for the backslashes also worked.

Regards,

Dan

On 06/06/2011 15:32, Ajasja Ljubetic( wrote:
> Hi,
>
> you can try escaping the spaces as well
> C:\\Program\ Files\\University\ of\ Illinois\\VMD\\tachyon_WIN32.exe
>
> Or you can create tachyon.cmd somewhere in you path and put this line
> inside
>
> @"C:\Program Files\University of Illinois\VMD\tachyon_WIN32.exe" %*
>
>
> Basically you just pass on all the arguments. Then you can call
>
> render Tachyon scene.dat "tachyon -aasamples 12 %s -format BMP -res
> 1500 1200 -o %s.bmp"
>
> Best regards,
> Ajasja
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 15:50, Daniel Holloway <deholloway_at_gmx.com
> <mailto:deholloway_at_gmx.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm running VMD under Win-XP and have been using Tachyon to render
> some figures for publication. Things work fine from the 'File
> Render Controls' box with a post-render command like this:
>
> "C:\Program Files\University of Illinois\VMD\tachyon_WIN32.exe"
> -aasamples 12 %s -format BMP -res 1500 1200 -o %s.bmp
>
> I'd like to be able to do the same from within a .vmd script file
> but I'm getting errors.
>
> With the command:
>
> render Tachyon scene.dat "C:\Program Files\University of
> Illinois\VMD\tachyon_WIN32.exe" -aasamples 12 %s -format BMP -res
> 1500 1200 -o %s.bmp
>
> I get:
>
> Info) Rendering current scene to 'scene.dat' ...
> Info) Tachyon file generation finished
> Info) Executing post-render cmd 'C:Program FilesUniversity of
> IllinoisVMD
> achyon_WIN32.exe -aasamples 12 scene.dat -format BMP -res 1500
> 1200 -o scene.dat
> .bmp' ...
> 'C:Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file.
> Info) Rendering complete.
> Info) render Tachyon scene.dat C:Program FilesUniversity of
> IllinoisVMD achyon_W
> IN32.exe -aasamples 12 %s -format BMP -res 1500 1200 -o %s.bmp
>
> As it looked like a syntax problem with the backslashes I tried:
>
> render Tachyon scene.dat "C:\\Program Files\\University of
> Illinois\\VMD\\tachyon_WIN32.exe" -aasamples 12 %s -format BMP
> -res 1500 1200 -o %s.bmp
>
> but still got an error:
>
> Info) Rendering current scene to 'scene.dat' ...
> Info) Tachyon file generation finished
> Info) Executing post-render cmd 'C:\Program Files\University of
> Illinois\VMD\tac
> hyon_WIN32.exe -aasamples 12 scene.dat -format BMP -res 1500 1200
> -o scene.dat.b
> mp' ...
> 'C:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file.
> Info) Rendering complete.
> Info) render Tachyon scene.dat C:\Program Files\University of
> Illinois\VMD\tachy
> on_WIN32.exe -aasamples 12 %s -format BMP -res 1500 1200 -o %s.bmp
>
> It now looks like a problem with the spaces in the directory
> names. Apart from substituting underscores everwhere, how do I put
> this right? Any suggestions would be gratefully received!
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Dan Holloway
>
>