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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon Oct 28 2002 - 19:46:12 CST

Hi,
  Have you seen this script in the VMD script library, it
does most of what you have in mind, though it doesn't have
1 second intervals or anything like that exactly:
  http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/script_library/scripts/vmdcollab/

Give that a try and let us know if you need help modifying it for
your purpose.

  John

On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 05:30:04PM -0800, jen ramus wrote:
> I have been trying to send commands to VMD through a
> socket. I would like to check the socket every second
> for commmands. I have sucessfully written a python
> version which uses the "display_update" callback to
> check the socket.
>
> VMDCallback.add_callback('display_update', methodName)
>
> Now I am trying to re write the code in tcl so I can
> run it on windows machines. There does not seem to be
> a similar callback for tcl. I need to allow VMD to
> continue running between socket checks. I have looked
> for a way to run a separate process but have not been
> able to find any.
>
> Has anyone got any ideas on how it can be done?
>
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