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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Fri Mar 09 2012 - 19:35:32 CST

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 7:34 PM, lam nguyen <lamvn08_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried to install netpbm again. It requires svgalib but I cannot get
> svgalib installed.

no it doesn't. just compile netpbm without svgalib support.
it is unlikely that you'll ever need svgalib.

axel.

>
> 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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