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From: Justin Gullingsrud (justin_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Aug 23 2002 - 09:49:03 CDT

Hi,

Try putting this code snippet into your .vmdrc file:

        proc structure { mol seltext ss } {
                  set sel [atomselect $mol $seltext]
                  $sel set structure $ss
        }

This was a convenience function which somehow got eliminated between 1997
and today. Give that a try and let us know how it goes.

Justin

On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 04:18:52PM +0200, Mark Hilge wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I just started to play a little bit with VMD 1.8a21 (SGI 64-bit). So far
> I couldn't find out how I can change the secondary structure elements
> detected by VMD (or Stride). Is there an easy way to do this? In the
> mail archive I saw a VMDTECH report dated back to 1997. Is this still
> this only way?
> When I type "structure top {resid 383 to 390} helix" in the vmd console
> it always complains: invalid command name "structure".
>
> Maybe there is a problem with our tctkl installation on our SGI ...
>
> Could anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong or how I can resolve this
> problem?
>
> Many thanks in advance!
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Mark 

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