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From: lam nguyen (lamvn08_at_gmail.com)
Date: Fri Mar 09 2012 - 18:34:18 CST

I tried to install netpbm again. It requires svgalib but I cannot get
svgalib installed.

Lam

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 3:31 PM, lam nguyen <lamvn08_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>> >
>> > --
>> > NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
>> > 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
>>
>> --
>> NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
>> 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
>>
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