From: Paweł Wolski (pawl.wolski_at_gmail.com)
Date: Tue Sep 30 2014 - 13:08:50 CDT

Hi

In VMD -> Graphics -> Colors... -> Categories
I don't have "10".
I'm tryinf to run a script. Script look like this:

*mol load lammpstrj k165r1.lammpstrjcolor Display Background whiteset CNT
[atomselect top "name 1"]set CA [atomselect top "name 2"]set MNP
[atomselect top "name 3"]set Opeg [atomselect top "name 4"]set core
[atomselect top "name 11"]set Si [atomselect top "name 5"]set Cchain
[atomselect top "name 6"]set OA [atomselect top "name 7"]set HA [atomselect
top "name 8"]set N [atomselect top "name 9"]set Hchain [atomselect top
"name 10"]set d [atomselect top "name 33"]set Pt [atomselect top "name
12"]set cptN [atomselect top "name 13"]set Cl [atomselect top "name 14"]set
cptH [atomselect top "name 15"]*

*$CNT set radius 0.849917$CA set radius 0.849917$MNP set radius
50.000000$core set radius 50.000000$Opeg set radius 0.750000$Si set radius
0.750000$Pt set radius 0.914750$cptN set radius 0.844575$Cl set radius
1.156800$cptH set radius 0.617838$Cchain set radius 0.849917$d set radius
5.000000$OA set radius 0.739980$HA set radius 0.534540$N set radius
0.812500$Hchain set radius 0.617838*

color Name 8 green
color Name 10 green
color Name 1 gray
color Name 2 gray
color Name 6 gray
color Name 4 red
color Name 7 red
color Name 5 black
color Name 12 yellow
color Name 13 blue
color Name 14 green
color Name 15 red
color Name 9 blue
color Name 3 yellow
color Name 33 red
color Name 11 magenta

when i run it, I get error: Unable to change color name. when I delete command
with 10,11,12,13 ...
everything works well
what is wrong?

2014-09-30 18:08 GMT+02:00 Axel Kohlmeyer <akohlmey_at_gmail.com>:

> On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Paweł Wolski <pawl.wolski_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have problem with change atoms colors when it's name have two chars,
> eg:
> > when I use command:
> > color Name 1 gray
> > - everything is ok, by when I use:
> > color Name 10 gray
> > I get error: Unable to change color name.
> > In this structure I have atom's name 10.
> > What I do wrong?
>
> nothing.
>
> however VMD limits how strings are recognized in the Name field for
> most entries to the first character. this has its origin in the custom
> that in PDB files atom names indicate their topological position with
> the second character (CA is alpha carbon, HA hydrogen at alpha carbon,
> CB is beta carbon as so on).
>
> axel.
>
> >
> > Best,
> > Pawel
>
>
>
> --
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> College of Science & Technology, Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA
> International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste. Italy.
>