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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_cmm.chem.upenn.edu)
Date: Fri Apr 28 2006 - 12:32:59 CDT

On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, Enzo Vitale wrote:

EV> Dear VMD developers,

hi enzo,

EV> I have two simple questions about the 'graphics' command:
EV>
EV> 1) is it possible to assign a NAME to a graphical object, so that it
EV> is simpler to reference it in a script (instead of having to figure
EV> out its number) ?

no, but each graphics command returns the id of its object(s).
and if you write scripts in the form of the ones shown e.g. at:
http://www.theochem.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/~axel.kohlmeyer/cpmd-vmd/part7.html#chap9_sect1
you can easily keep track of them.

EV> 2) Is it possible to HIDE an object without deleting or replacing it,
EV> so that it can be showed again later ?

not as such. you could try using a second molecule and draw to
that molecule without having any representations for that molecule.
if you show/hide the second (third etc) 'molecule' the objects
should be visible or disappear.

EV> I use VMD 1.8.3 on Windows.

ciao,
   axel.

EV>
EV> Thank you in advance,
EV> Enzo
EV> 

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