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From: Ebert Maximilian (m.ebert_at_umontreal.ca)
Date: Sat Oct 10 2015 - 20:34:33 CDT

Hi,

that means that I need to keep the position vectors. Not ideal but fine. I have every graphics in an empty molecule so I will simply delete the molecule and add a new empty molecule and re-draw the graphics. Too bad that graphics object are not treated as atoms.

Thanks,

Max

> On Oct 8, 2015, at 3:11 PM, Ebert Maximilian <m.ebert_at_umontreal.ca> wrote:
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> ________________________________________
> From: John Stone
> Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2015 3:11:16 PM (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
> To: Ebert Maximilian
> Cc: <vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
> Subject: Re: vmd-l: Change color of drawn object
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> Hi,
> You can use the lower level "graphics replace" command to delete
> a particular graphics command ID with a subsequently added graphics command.
> To do this, you have to keep track of the graphics command IDs returned
> when you run your 'draw' or 'graphics' commands. The User's Guide
> discusses this, although the description could be improved quite a bit.
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> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
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> On Thu, Oct 08, 2015 at 06:48:07PM +0000, Ebert Maximilian wrote:
>> Hi,
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>> is there a way to change the color of a drawn object if this object has a molecule ID of its own. Example
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>> mol new
>> mol rename top new-object
>> draw color red
>> draw sphere {0,0,0}
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>> How to change the sphere to green?
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>> Thanks
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