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From: Christian Leitold (christian.leitold_at_gmail.com)
Date: Wed Jul 15 2015 - 07:27:32 CDT

Thanks, that has solved it.

Cheers,
Christian

On 15 July 2015 at 14:21, Axel Kohlmeyer <akohlmey_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 6:46 AM, Christian Leitold
> <christian.leitold_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > OK, how excatly can I change the version number? For the tcl plugins,
> there
> > is the pkgIndex.tcl file, but what is the equivalent for the molfile
>
> it is in the registration struct.
>
> > plugins? In xyzplugin.c, there is the "RCS INFORMATION" block, with the
> line
> > "$Revision: 1.37 $ $Date: 2015/07/15 12:14:n.c35 $" that I have
> > changed accordingly, but this has no effect whatsoever.
>
> yes, because they are inside comments. you have to increase the
> plugin.minorv entry below. the plugin loaded checks this struct before
> deciding whether to load or override the plugin functions.
>
>
> 255 /* registration stuff */
> 256 static molfile_plugin_t plugin;
> 257
> 258 VMDPLUGIN_API int VMDPLUGIN_init() {
> 259 memset(&plugin, 0, sizeof(molfile_plugin_t));
> 260 plugin.abiversion = vmdplugin_ABIVERSION;
> 261 plugin.type = MOLFILE_PLUGIN_TYPE;
> 262 plugin.name = "xyz";
> 263 plugin.prettyname = "XYZ";
> 264 plugin.author = "Mauricio Carrillo Tripp, John E. Stone, Axel
> Kohlmeyer";
> 265 plugin.majorv = 1;
> 266 plugin.minorv = 3;
> 267 plugin.is_reentrant = VMDPLUGIN_THREADSAFE;
> 268 plugin.filename_extension = "xyz,xmol";
> 269 plugin.open_file_read = open_xyz_read;
> 270 plugin.read_structure = read_xyz_structure;
> 271 plugin.read_next_timestep = read_xyz_timestep;
> 272 plugin.close_file_read = close_xyz_read;
> 273 plugin.open_file_write = open_xyz_write;
> 274 plugin.write_structure = write_xyz_structure;
> 275 plugin.write_timestep = write_xyz_timestep;
> 276 plugin.close_file_write = close_xyz_write;
> 277 return VMDPLUGIN_SUCCESS;
> 278 }
>
>
> ciao,
> axel.
>
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Christian
> >
> > On 14 July 2015 at 18:25, Christian Leitold <christian.leitold_at_gmail.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> On 14 July 2015 at 18:21, Axel Kohlmeyer <akohlmey_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> two things:
> >>>
> >>> - you have to increase the (minor) version number of the plugin (this
> >>> is how VMD checks whether it should bother to replace a plugin)
> >>> - you may not be able to load files directly from the command line
> >>> (file loading is initiated early in the startup sequence and then you
> >>> may only have the linked in plugin available, but not yet have the
> >>> plugin manager load external plugins).
> >>
> >>
> >> thanks for your fast reply. I'll try your suggestion as soon as
> possible!
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Christian
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer akohlmey_at_gmail.com http://goo.gl/1wk0
> College of Science & Technology, Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA
> International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste. Italy.
>