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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Dec 07 2005 - 10:17:58 CST

Hi Luc,
  At present you cannot use ColorID values greater than 16.
If you try to use a ColorID greater than 16, current versions of
VMD will clamp the color to 16, which is the color black by default.
I'm working on redesigning some of this so you can set reps to any
arbitrary color and still have high drawing performance, but that
won't be finished for the next version of VMD and will come out in a
future version.

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 02:27:35PM +0100, Luc Moulinier wrote:
> Hello world !
>
> I'm interfacing VMD with my program written in tcl dedicated to multiple
> sequences alignment analysis. I use VMD to display structures with some
> properties. For simplicity reasons, I had to transfer the colors I use
> to VMD. I create a color lookup table, starting at index 100, ending at
> 227 and looping like this :
>
> color change rgb $id $r $g $b
> set lookup($c) $i
> set lookup($i) $c
>
> When I try to use these colors, like
>
> mol addrep 0
> mol modselect 1 0 resid 100 to 300
> mol modcolor 1 0 colorid 110
>
> the resulting rep seems to be colored in black, or not colored at all (I
> can't see the difference ...)
>
> I didn't find in the on-line html user's guide something related to the
> use of colors with id > 16 ...
>
> Can you tell me what am I doing wrong ?
>
> Thank you for any help !!
>
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