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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_cmm.chem.upenn.edu)
Date: Fri Jul 27 2007 - 13:56:05 CDT

On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, John Stone wrote:

JS> Hi,
JS> If you implemented a GUI in Tcl/Tk, you could implement a "pause" button
JS> or something similar. That gets trickier due to the way you'd have to
JS> process the "loop" as a sequence of events/timeouts/etc, but its doable.

yep. this would be very similar to what is done in
the multimolanim plugin. you'd just need to add a
field to enter the sequence of frames that you want
to loop over.

http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/plugins/multimolanim/

cheers,
  axel.

JS>
JS> John
JS>
JS>
JS> On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 11:56:24AM +0200, pascal.baillod_at_epfl.ch wrote:
JS> > Thanks, John! That works perfectly indeed! I do something like:
JS> >
JS> > # loop over all
JS> >
JS> > set myFrSize [array size myFr]
JS> >
JS> > for {set fr 1} {$fr <= $myFrSize} {incr fr 1} {
JS> > animate goto $myFr($fr)
JS> > display update ui
JS> > sleep 1
JS> > puts $myFr($fr)
JS> > }
JS> >
JS> > I just haven't yet figured out how to stop the loop when I observe an
JS> > interesting frame..
JS> >
JS> > Thanks for any suggestion!
JS> >
JS> > Pascal
JS> >
JS> >
JS> > *******************************************************************************
JS> > Pascal Baillod (PhD student)
JS> > *******************************************************************************
JS> > Swiss Federal Institute of Technology EPFL Tel: +41-(0)21-693-0322
JS> > Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering , Fax: +41-(0)21-693-0320
JS> > Laboratory of Computational Chemistry and Biochemistry pascal.baillod_at_epfl.ch
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JS> > CH-1015 Lausanne
JS> > *******************************************************************************
JS>
JS> 

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