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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_cmm.chem.upenn.edu)
Date: Sat Jul 28 2007 - 17:32:46 CDT

On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, karan uppal wrote:

karan,

the problem you are seeing is essentially a tcl issue and
not a VMD specific problem, so the tcl documentation should
be the first to consult. to be able to autoload a package you
need a pkgIndex.tcl file (generated either from the tclsh with
pkg_mkIndex . or with a text editor). for generic tcl scripts
to be autoloaded you need as similar tclIndex file (generated
from auto_mkindex . ).

and then you have to extend the search path to include your
package directory as shown at:
http://www.theochem.rub.de/~axel.kohlmeyer/cpmd-vmd/part1.html#chap3_sect3

cheers,
  axel.

KU> Hi,
KU>
KU> I'm trying to add a TCL package to VMD. I'm running VMD on a Windows
KU> platform and i have created the plugin directory under "C:\Program
KU> Files\University of Illinois\VMD\plugins\noarch\tcl". My package name is
KU> "Interaction" and the version is "1.0". I have included the "package provide
KU> Interaction 1.0" statement in my .tcl file.
KU>
KU> When i run the "vmd_install_extension Interaction interact_tk
KU> "Data/Interact" command i get the following error:
KU>
KU> "The Interaction package could not be loaded"
KU>
KU> I also tried the "package require Interaction" command, but that didn't work
KU> either. Do you have any guesses about what i might be doing wrong here ?
KU>
KU> Thanks
KU> -Karan
KU>
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