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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 09 2007 - 14:25:54 CST

Martijn,
  I haven't previously seen the behavior you describe, but then
I typically use VMD with a single molecule when operating in the CAVE
and with haptic devices for IMD etc. You said that you get stuck
picking molecule ID 1? That definitely sounds odd to me. Have you
made sure that you didn't accidentally set the pick mode to an assigned
representation (see the "assigned rep" tab in the Tool Controls window?

I'm curious how you're running VMD through VRJuggler? If you have patches or
instructions on how to run VMD via VRJuggler, I'd very much like to get
a copy of those so that others can do the same.

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 04:55:52PM +0100, Martijn Kragtwijk wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am having a strange problem with picking molecules using the grab
> tool. If there are multiple molecules loaded, I can not move them around
> independently as expected. It seems that once the molecule with index 1
> has been picked, it is impossible to pick any other molecule.
> I am going to dive into the code to see what's going on, but whas
> wondering whether other people experience the same problem?
> The issue occurs with VMD 1.8.5, both on Irix with CAVELib and on Linux
> with VRJuggler (I have written a VRJuggler version to run VMD in our
> Cave on a Linux cluster, see also
> http://www.rug.nl/rc/hpcv/projects/molecular_visualisation).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Martijn Kragtwijk
> (m.kragtwijk_at_rug.nl)
> --
> VR Engineer
> University of Groningen, The Netherlands
> Department of High-Performance Computing and Visualisation
> Nettelbosje 1, 9747 AJ Groningen
> tel: +31 50 3639245 gsm: +31 6
> 25030665 fax: +31 50-3633406
> http://www.rug.nl/rc/hpcv/ 

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