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From: Anssi Nurminen (anssi.nurminen_at_tut.fi)
Date: Tue Apr 12 2011 - 10:49:32 CDT

Just as "source", "play" has no effect; my plugin does not get updated.
I'm installing the plugin in vmd.rc using:
vmd_install_extension myplugin myplugin_tk "Analysis/MyPlugin"
if that makes any difference.

Is there any way to uninstall it first, before trying to re-source it?

BR,
  Anssi Nurminen

On 12.4.2011 18:38, Axel Kohlmeyer wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Anssi Nurminen<anssi.nurminen_at_tut.fi> wrote:
>> John,
>>
>> Thanks for the quick response!
>>
>> I have a single .tcl file that I'm using for my plugin located in:
>> VMD/plugins/noarch/tcl/myplugin1.0/myplugin.tcl (Windows)
>>
>> typing the command:
>> "source plugins/noarch/tcl/myplugin1.0/myplugin.tcl"
>
> try "play plugins/noarch/tcl/myplugin1.0/myplugin.tcl"
>
>
>> into the vmd console or the Tk console doesn't seem to have any effects. The
>> command yields no output, and my plugin does not get updated. How should I
>> use the source command?
>
> don't use tkconsole for that. it does a lot of tcl trickery (indeed i
> learned a lot of
> tcl tricks from reading its code) and has its own copy of the command
> interpreter.
>
> you are better off with the regular console window.
>
> axel.
>
>
>>
>> BR,
>> Anssi Nurminen
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 12.4.2011 17:04, John Stone wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 02:14:36PM +0300, Anssi Nurminen wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm new to VMD and I'm developing a Tcl plugin. I'd have a few question
>>>> about best practises.
>>>>
>>>> -Is there a way to vmd_uninstall_extension or to vmd_reload_extension?
>>>> Currently whenever I make changes I need to restart VMD to be able to
>>>> get my plugin reloaded (reinstalled).
>>>
>>> No, but you can manually "source" the newly modified script file(s)
>>> and that will have the effect of updating the code on-the-fly.
>>>
>>>> -What are the VMD-community pages and how do I access them?
>>>
>>> They are pages maintained as a subdirectory of the VMD Public project
>>> on BioCoRE. You can edit/create such pages, as well as various
>>> alpha/beta versions of VMD by following the instructions here:
>>> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/alpha/
>>>
>>>> -How do I turn on VMD's debugging mode? should I use it?
>>>
>>> If you're not working on modifying the C/C++ code, then there's
>>> no need to run VMD within a debugger. If you're working on Tcl scripts,
>>> then you may find the "logfile" command useful.
>>>
>>>> -Other helpful tips for debugging Tcl-plugins?
>>>
>>> Try and test your procedures individually and be sure you've exercised
>>> entire range of input parameters. Since Tcl is interpreted at run-time,
>>> it is possible to have errors in a script and not realize it until
>>> a particular combination of parameters trigger a particular section of
>>> code to be run that isn't usually exercised.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> John Stone
>>> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>>>
>>
>>
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