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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed May 24 2006 - 13:04:16 CDT

Kurt,
  At the present time there's no way to extend the file extension
associations in VMD except by recompiling the plugin(s) for which you
want to add a new recognized extension. (the plugins register the
extensions that they recognize when they are loaded...)
We could probably add a method for doing this however.

Perhaps a more flexible solution would be to call a Tcl/Python callback
when an unrecognized file is presented.
 
  John

On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 12:41:21PM -0400, Kurt Smith wrote:
>
> Is there a way I can have VMD associate a new file extension with a certain
> file type when I load a molecule? For example, I store LAMMPS trajectories in
> *.ato. I would like to have VMD know that automatically, rather than having to
> use the pull down window each time.
> Thanks,
> Kurt 

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