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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Nov 11 2009 - 12:38:08 CST

Rui,
  I think what's going on is that the Tk file browser dialog remembers
the last directory you accessed with it previously, and uses that as
the starting point rather than using the current working directory.
I'll have to look into whether or not there's a way to easily override
this. Most likely it is doable by passing in the current working directory
as a parameter, but to ensure consistency, we'd have to make this change to
every single plugin included with VMD since it isn't the default behavior
of the Tk browser on the platform you're using. I should mention that the
behavior of the Tk browser does vary somewhat depending on which OS you're
running, so that plays a factor also.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 05:57:37PM +0000, J. Rui Rodrigues wrote:
> Sorry,
>
> I mean
> ...in terminal,I cd to /Users/jrui/today, *start VMD from command line*, load some data with mol new, then
> Extensions->Analysis->Timeline, do calculation...
>
>
>
> Rui
>
>
>
> On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:13:36 -0600, John Stone wrote
> > Rui,
> > If you're referring to loading a saved state, it would just
> > be an issue of the filenames that were recorded in the saved state
> > file. You can edit a VMD saved state file to make the filenames
> > use relative paths, or you can do the opposite and use fully qualified
> > paths for the files. The VMD saved state is nothing more than a Tcl
> > script, so you can edit as much as you like.
> > Let us know if you need more help with this.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > John Stone
> > johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 04:54:01PM 0000, J. Rui Rodrigues wrote:
> > > Dear all,
> > >
> > > While some graphical commands/extensions of VMD take the current working directory for reading/writing
> files,
> > > others remember the last directory used in some previous session. Is there a way to force vmd to forget the
> working
> > > directory from a previous session and always use the current one? Where is that information stored anyway?
> > > I'm using VMD 1.8.7 on an Intel Mac 10.5.8.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Rui Rodrigues
> >
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>
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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