From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Feb 04 2010 - 10:48:38 CST

Seth,
  At present, the bond length label precision is hard-coded in the
sprintf() call on line 80 of GeometryBond.C If you wanted to recompile
VMD, then you can change it to have greater precision. If you'd rather
not recompile VMD, then an alternative would be to write yourself a
short Tcl script to draw the same bond length label, but with your
preferred precision. You can do this using the "graphics" or "draw"
commands. Let us know if you need any more help with this.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 03:21:12PM +1000, Dr. Seth Olsen wrote:
> Hi VMDers,
>
> I would like to change the bond length labels in VMD to a resolution of
> 0.001 Angstrom instead of 0.01. I cannot figure out from the manual how
> this should be done. How do I do it?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Seth
>
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