From: MW Van der Kamp, School of Chemistry (Marc.VanderKamp_at_bristol.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Oct 03 2006 - 11:31:59 CDT

Hi Axel,

Thanks for the tip (something I suppose I should have been able to work out
myself), the {} brackets do the trick.

Marc

--On 03 October 2006 09:07 -0400 Axel Kohlmeyer
<akohlmey_at_cmm.chem.upenn.edu> wrote:

> On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, MW Van der Kamp, School of Chemistry wrote:
>
> MV> Hi,
> MV>
> MV> You were right, John, thanks a lot. I installed VMD 1.8.5 this
> morning and MV> my problem is solved.
> MV> By the way, do you (or someone else) know of a trick to load files in
> a MV> tcl-script from windows folders with spaces in the name?
> MV> With the Windows XP setup that's standard on computers in our
> department MV> you get "C:/Documents and Settings/chmwvdk/" folders for
> each user. Due to MV> the spaces in the name a normal tcl-script will
> assume the end of the file MV> location at the first space of course...
>
> even if you use?
>
> mol new {C:/Documents and Settings/chmwvdk/some file.pdb} type pdb
> waitfor all
>
> axel.
>
> MV>
> MV> Thanks,
> MV> Marc
> MV>
> MV> --On 03 October 2006 00:38 -0500 John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> MV>
> MV> > Hi,
> MV> > I'm guessing you're using VMD 1.8.4? VMD 1.8.5 fixes a
> MV> > bug that could cause this type of problem. (specific to loading
> MV> > a sequence of PDB files..)
> MV> >
> MV> > John Stone
> MV> > vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> MV> >
> MV> > On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 05:06:33PM +0100, MW Van der Kamp, School of
> MV> > Chemistry wrote:
> MV> >> Dear all,
> MV> >>
> MV> >> I have a problem loading a pdb file into a molecule previously
> read in MV> >> as a pdb file using a tcl script. After reading in the
> first pdb file, MV> >> the connectivity of atoms is correctly displayed.
> After loading the MV> >> second pdb file however, all the display shows
> in points, so bonds seem MV> >> to be lost. (I use the standard stick
> representation.)
> MV> >> I haven't experienced this before and the same thing does not
> happen MV> >> when I use the 'File>Load data into molecule' option of
> the VMD Main MV> >> window. Does anyone know how I can solve this?
> MV> >>
> MV> >> Thanks,
> MV> >> Marc
> MV> >>
> MV> >> PS Start of my tcl script I load using the TkConsole:
> MV> >> mol new C:/TEMP/b3lyp/rc1-b3lyp-1.4.pdb waitfor all
> MV> >> mol addfile C:/TEMP/b3lyp/rc1-b3lyp-1.3.pdb waitfor all
> MV> >> mol addfile C:/TEMP/b3lyp/rc1-b3lyp-1.2.pdb waitfor all
> MV> >> mol addfile C:/TEMP/b3lyp/rc1-b3lyp-1.1.pdb waitfor all
> MV> >>
> MV> >> (Doesn't matter whether I use 'waitfor all' or not)
> MV> >>
> MV> >> ---------------------------------------------------
> MV> >> Marc van der Kamp, PhD-student
> MV> >> School of Chemistry, Research group of Dr. Adrian Mulholland
> MV> >> University of Bristol
> MV> >> E-mail: Marc.vanderKamp_at_bristol.ac.uk
> MV> >>
> MV> >
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> MV>
> MV>
> MV>
> MV> ---------------------------------------------------
> MV> Marc van der Kamp, PhD-student
> MV> School of Chemistry, Research group of Dr. Adrian Mulholland
> MV> University of Bristol
> MV> E-mail: Marc.vanderKamp_at_bristol.ac.uk
> MV>
> MV>
>
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Marc van der Kamp, PhD-student
School of Chemistry, Research group of Dr. Adrian Mulholland
University of Bristol
E-mail: Marc.vanderKamp_at_bristol.ac.uk