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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_cmm.chem.upenn.edu)
Date: Fri May 22 2009 - 17:09:08 CDT

On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 18:47 -0300, Alberto Sergio Garay wrote:
> Dear Axel
> First, I want to apology for the poor description of my problem.

ok.

nevertheless, i guessed correctly in my previous mail.

you cannot refer to selection functions in another selection.
the selection takes a selection string. you can use the two
methods i outlined before or do:

mol selection "[$sel text]"

cheers,
   axel.

>
> In order to check the command I run in tcl/tk terminal:
>
> 1) mol delrep 0 top
> 2) set sel [atomselect top "resid 49"]
> I want to see only my selection.
> 3) I have tried the command below:
> a)mol selection $sel
> b)mol selection { $sel }
> c)mol selection {"$sel"}
> d)mol selection {'$sel'}
> e)mol selection "$sel"
> f)mol selection '$sel'
> 4) mol addrep top
> 5) for a) it is added a representation of "all" system
> for b) it is added a representation of "all" system
> for c) it is added a representation of "all" system
> for d) it is added a representation of "all" system
> for e) it is added a representation of "all" system
> for f) it is added a representation of "all" system
>
> Thank you for your fast answer.
>
> Sergio
> 

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