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From: lam nguyen (lamvn08_at_gmail.com)
Date: Fri Mar 09 2012 - 17:31:35 CST

Hi John,

Normal built-in movies are fine. Just tried them out. Still cannot use the
user-define on linux. :(

Lam

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 2:27 PM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:

>
> Hi,
> Before you would be able to make any of the user-defined movies,
> you would need to ensure that the "normal" built-in movie types
> like the rocking movies work. If you don't have required tools like
> NetPBM installed, then there's no way that any of it is going to work
> correctly. I recommend you get that fixed first, and once you get the
> normal rocking movies running, the user-defined movies should also work.
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 10:10:05AM -0800, lam nguyen wrote:
> > Yes I did try those 2 scripts on linux and on macbook. On linux both
> > scripts did not work. On mac, one of them worked fine,
> > the usermoviefade.tcl did not work.
> > If I recall correctly I might have failed installing netpbm on linux
> > because I could not install all the dependencies. Would that be the
> > problem that gave the error? If yes I will try install netpbm again.
> > Thanks,
> > Lam
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:12 AM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > I'm not sure why you're having trouble there, it seems reasonable.
> > Perhaps there's a typo in your script that I'm not seeing below.
> > What happens if you download and run one of the example user-defined
> > movie scripts that are posted here:
> > http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/plugins/vmdmovie/
> > http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/plugins/vmdmovie/usermovie.tcl
> >
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/plugins/vmdmovie/usermoviefade.tcl
> >
> > Cheers,
> > John Stone
> > vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> > On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 10:49:00AM -0800, lam nguyen wrote:
> > > Dear all,
> > > I want to learn how to make movies with user-defined scripts. I
> > started
> > > with a simple script from the VMD tutorial. Here is the
> content:
> > > proc moviecallback { args } {
> > > puts "User-defined movie frame update callback frame:
> > > $::MovieMaker::userframe
> > > / $::MovieMaker::numframes"
> > > rotate y by 5
> > > }
> > > ## Easy-to-use proc to enable the user-defined movie frame
> callback
> > > proc enablemoviecallback { } {
> > > trace add variable ::MovieMaker::userframe write
> moviecallback
> > > }
> > > ## Easy-to-use proc to disable the user-defined movie frame
> > callback
> > > proc disablemoviecallback { } {
> > > trace remove variable ::MovieMaker::userframe write
> moviecallback
> > > }
> > > In the Tk console:
> > > source usermovie.tcl
> > > enablemoviecallback
> > > Then in the movie maker window I chose User defined procedure.
> > > However I got an error message: Invalid input file expansion
> > expression
> > > (no ']')
> > > Can anyone please tell me what I did wrong here?
> > > Thanks
> > > Lam
> >
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> Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
> University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/ Phone: 217-244-3349
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/ Fax: 217-244-6078
>