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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 27 2008 - 14:04:35 CDT

Maxim,
  Yes, the behavior is by design, as it improves default trajectory
animation and atom selection performance by a huge factor. That said,
you can very easily cause atom selections to be re-evaluated dynamically
when necessary:

If this is part of a script, then you want:
    $sel frame
    $sel update

If you're just talking about selections for the graphical representations,
then use the "Trajectory" tab and enable the checkbox labelled
"update selection every frame".

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 02:59:25PM -0400, Maxim Paliy wrote:
> Dear VMD/NAMD experts.
>
> I find, that when I select some stuff using "within" keyword
> (e.g. "within x of something") such selection
> is not updated throughout DCD trajectory?
>
> Is this behaviour by design?
>
> How to make the selection "within" to update for every frame?
>
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions
>
> Maxim
>
>
> 

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