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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Jun 04 2008 - 16:52:10 CDT

Hi,
  You can set VMD to use FLTK as the default chooser either by
modifying your .bashrc/.cshrc to set the VMDFILECHOOSER environment
variable systemwide, or you can add this command to the end of your
.vmdrc file:
 set env(VMDFILECHOOSER) FLTK

FLTK is already the default file chooser on Unix versions of VMD.
We use the Tk chooser on MacOS X and on Windows because the Tk chooser
interoperates more cleanly with the native windowing systems on those
platforms. For those people that may prefer to use the Tk chooser on
Unix, they can do the opposite change:
 set env(VMDFILECHOOSER) TK

This user-selectable file chooser feature is described in the
VMD User's Guide in the section on environment variables and
command line options etc.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 02:43:32PM -0700, Kevin DeMarco wrote:
> John,
>
> Thanks for getting back to me. Switching to the FLTK file chooser
> avoids the problem!
> Is there a way to set this as the default chooser? Also, I wonder why
> this problem with the Tk chooser is suddenly occuring in Leopard.
> There seems to be a length limitation of 120 characters.
>
> -Kevin
>
> On Jun 4, 2008, at 2:27 PM, John Stone wrote:
>
> >
> >Hi,
> > Can you determine if this is just a file browser issue with Tk?
> >What happens if you do this within the VMD console before attempting
> >to load a file in the GUI:
> > set env(VMDFILECHOOSER) FLTK
> >
> >That should cause FLTK's file chooser to be used rather than Tk, and
> >it will either avoid this problem, or assist me in determining where
> >the
> >path length limitation is occuring.
> >
> >Cheers,
> > John Stone
> > vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> >
> >On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 01:24:51PM -0700, Kevin DeMarco wrote:
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>I recently upgraged to Mac OS 10.5.3 and now VMD is no longer loading
> >>parm7 files with a long path.
> >>
> >>Specifically, the message I get is: "Users/kevin/Documents/My
> >>Documents/School Related/UCDavis/Lab Work/MDStudies/Topomer/Modeller/
> >>Model2/m1mod/300/proGm1mo: No such file or directory"
> >>
> >>The actual file name should be "proGm1mod.top" but VMD is now
> >>truncating the end of the filename and thus not finding the file.
> >>This
> >>is affecting all recent versions of VMD on Mac OS X X86 on my
> >>installation of Leopard. Interestingly, I tried running a PPC
> >>version,
> >>and it loads the file no problem, albeit slowly because it's
> >>emulated.
> >>
> >>Is there a fix for this? I'd like to run the native version, and not
> >>have to move all of my work directories closer to the root just to be
> >>able to load topology files.
> >>
> >>Thanks!
> >>-Kevin
> >
> >--
> >NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
> >Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
> >University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
> >Email: johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu Phone: 217-244-3349
> > WWW: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/ Fax: 217-244-6078 

-- 
NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Email: johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu                 Phone: 217-244-3349
  WWW: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/      Fax: 217-244-6078