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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 01 2001 - 14:21:30 CST

Dr. Taylor,
  At the present time we have no way of providing control over
line thickness or dashing for the wireframe MSMS display. It sounds
like you have just found a bug in our code however, as it should _not_
be turning into dashed lines when you create a label!!
Thanks for letting us know about this, and we'll see if we can
get that fixed shortly. We've fixed a few other bugs since VMD 1.6
was released, and I'm hoping to get a new beta version, or a 1.6.1
version out the door soon to help people that have run into bugs like
this one. I've successfully reproduced your bug, and am adding it
to our bug tracking system. Strangely, we never came across this
problem ourselves when we originally tested that code.

Thanks again!
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 03:12:50PM -0500, Jeff Taylor wrote:
> Hi -
>
> I'm using VMD1.6 on IRIX and I have a MSMS surface that I have displayed
> as a wireframe. Is there a way to control the look (thickness, solid or
> dashed, etc.) of the lines that make up the wire surface? Also, when I
> first make the wireframe surface it appears as thin solid lines. Then
> if I click on an atom to label it, the surface changes to thick dashed
> lines and I have no idea how to change it back.
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> Jeff Taylor
>
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> Phone (919) 681-5266 Durham, NC 27710 

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