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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_cmm.chem.upenn.edu)
Date: Wed May 03 2006 - 10:29:29 CDT

On Wed, 3 May 2006, Enzo Vitale wrote:

EV> Dear VMD people,

dear enzo,

EV> I wrote some scripts (thanks for your previous very quick replies!)
EV> and now I would like to be able to call them from my local .vmdrc
EV> command files, without replicating them in each of these files.

VMD supports the standard tcl auto-loading mechanism for both packages
and individual subroutines.
please have a look at, e.g.

http://www.theochem.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/~axel.kohlmeyer/cpmd-vmd/part1.html#chap3_sect3

for three examples handling plugins, autoloaded subroutines and
vmd_XXX_subcommand extension scripts.

note that for autoloading, you need to create a tclIndex file. i usually
put the attached script into those directories and run it to update that
file.

EV>
EV> The question is: where should I put the source of my subroutines in
EV> order for the TCL interpreter to find them automatically? Do I need to
EV> put each subroutine in a different source file (maybe with the same
EV> name as the subroutine)? And in which directory should these files be
EV> placed?
EV>
EV> I was not able to find an answer to this question in the (in any case
EV> excellent!) User's Guide.

you'd have to check out the tcl dokumentation for that.

ciao,
    axel.

p.s.: if you've written some useful stuff, please consider making
it available for the vmd script library. :)

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

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