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From: lam nguyen (lamvn08_at_gmail.com)
Date: Fri Mar 09 2012 - 19:57:53 CST

Oh you're right Axel. I did not notice that I can choose none when it asks
for svgalib. Now netpbm is installed. But the same error still persists
when I use usermovie.tcl.

Lam

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Axel Kohlmeyer <akohlmey_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 7:34 PM, lam nguyen <lamvn08_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > I tried to install netpbm again. It requires svgalib but I cannot get
> > svgalib installed.
>
> no it doesn't. just compile netpbm without svgalib support.
> it is unlikely that you'll ever need svgalib.
>
> axel.
>
>
> >
> > Lam
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 3:31 PM, lam nguyen <lamvn08_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi John,
> >>
> >> Normal built-in movies are fine. Just tried them out. Still cannot use
> the
> >> user-define on linux. :(
> >>
> >> Lam
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 2:27 PM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Hi,
> >>> Before you would be able to make any of the user-defined movies,
> >>> you would need to ensure that the "normal" built-in movie types
> >>> like the rocking movies work. If you don't have required tools like
> >>> NetPBM installed, then there's no way that any of it is going to work
> >>> correctly. I recommend you get that fixed first, and once you get the
> >>> normal rocking movies running, the user-defined movies should also
> work.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> John Stone
> >>> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 10:10:05AM -0800, lam nguyen wrote:
> >>> > Yes I did try those 2 scripts on linux and on macbook. On linux
> both
> >>> > scripts did not work. On mac, one of them worked fine,
> >>> > the usermoviefade.tcl did not work.
> >>> > If I recall correctly I might have failed installing netpbm on
> linux
> >>> > because I could not install all the dependencies. Would that be
> the
> >>> > problem that gave the error? If yes I will try install netpbm
> again.
> >>> > Thanks,
> >>> > Lam
> >>> >
> >>> > On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:12 AM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
> >>> > wrote:
> >>> >
> >>> > Hi,
> >>> > I'm not sure why you're having trouble there, it seems
> >>> > reasonable.
> >>> > Perhaps there's a typo in your script that I'm not seeing below.
> >>> > What happens if you download and run one of the example
> >>> > user-defined
> >>> > movie scripts that are posted here:
> >>> > http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/plugins/vmdmovie/
> >>> >
> >>> > http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/plugins/vmdmovie/usermovie.tcl
> >>> >
> >>> >
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/plugins/vmdmovie/usermoviefade.tcl
> >>> >
> >>> > Cheers,
> >>> > John Stone
> >>> > vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> >>> > On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 10:49:00AM -0800, lam nguyen wrote:
> >>> > > Dear all,
> >>> > > I want to learn how to make movies with user-defined
> scripts.
> >>> > I
> >>> > started
> >>> > > with a simple script from the VMD tutorial. Here is the
> >>> > content:
> >>> > > proc moviecallback { args } {
> >>> > > puts "User-defined movie frame update callback frame:
> >>> > > $::MovieMaker::userframe
> >>> > > / $::MovieMaker::numframes"
> >>> > > rotate y by 5
> >>> > > }
> >>> > > ## Easy-to-use proc to enable the user-defined movie frame
> >>> > callback
> >>> > > proc enablemoviecallback { } {
> >>> > > trace add variable ::MovieMaker::userframe write
> >>> > moviecallback
> >>> > > }
> >>> > > ## Easy-to-use proc to disable the user-defined movie frame
> >>> > callback
> >>> > > proc disablemoviecallback { } {
> >>> > > trace remove variable ::MovieMaker::userframe write
> >>> > moviecallback
> >>> > > }
> >>> > > In the Tk console:
> >>> > > source usermovie.tcl
> >>> > > enablemoviecallback
> >>> > > Then in the movie maker window I chose User defined
> >>> > procedure.
> >>> > > However I got an error message: Invalid input file
> expansion
> >>> > expression
> >>> > > (no ']')
> >>> > > Can anyone please tell me what I did wrong here?
> >>> > > Thanks
> >>> > > Lam
> >>> >
> >>> > --
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> >>> > Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
> >>> > University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
> >>> > http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/ Phone: 217-244-3349
> >>> > http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/ 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
> >>> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/ Phone: 217-244-3349
> >>> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/ Fax: 217-244-6078
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer
> akohlmey_at_gmail.com http://goo.gl/1wk0
>
> College of Science and Technology
> Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA.
>