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From: Kevin DeMarco (kdemarco_at_ucdavis.edu)
Date: Wed Jun 04 2008 - 16:43:32 CDT

John,

Thanks for getting back to me. Switching to the FLTK file chooser
avoids the problem!
Is there a way to set this as the default chooser? Also, I wonder why
this problem with the Tk chooser is suddenly occuring in Leopard.
There seems to be a length limitation of 120 characters.

-Kevin

On Jun 4, 2008, at 2:27 PM, John Stone wrote:

>
> Hi,
> Can you determine if this is just a file browser issue with Tk?
> What happens if you do this within the VMD console before attempting
> to load a file in the GUI:
> set env(VMDFILECHOOSER) FLTK
>
> That should cause FLTK's file chooser to be used rather than Tk, and
> it will either avoid this problem, or assist me in determining where
> the
> path length limitation is occuring.
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 01:24:51PM -0700, Kevin DeMarco wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I recently upgraged to Mac OS 10.5.3 and now VMD is no longer loading
>> parm7 files with a long path.
>>
>> Specifically, the message I get is: "Users/kevin/Documents/My
>> Documents/School Related/UCDavis/Lab Work/MDStudies/Topomer/Modeller/
>> Model2/m1mod/300/proGm1mo: No such file or directory"
>>
>> The actual file name should be "proGm1mod.top" but VMD is now
>> truncating the end of the filename and thus not finding the file.
>> This
>> is affecting all recent versions of VMD on Mac OS X X86 on my
>> installation of Leopard. Interestingly, I tried running a PPC
>> version,
>> and it loads the file no problem, albeit slowly because it's
>> emulated.
>>
>> Is there a fix for this? I'd like to run the native version, and not
>> have to move all of my work directories closer to the root just to be
>> able to load topology files.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> -Kevin
>
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