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From: Benjamin Bouvier (benjamin.bouvier_at_ibcp.fr)
Date: Tue Jan 12 2010 - 11:04:08 CST

Hello list,

I'm having trouble getting Axel's HOOMD plugin (from
http://sites.google.com/site/akohlmey/software/hoomd-plugin) to work with
VMD 1.8.7 (on 32-bit Linux, obtained as a binary from the VMD site).

Compilation went through with a couple of 'unused parameter' warnings. I
copied the resulting hoomdplugin.so file to the
$VMDBASEDIR/plugins/LINUX/molfile directory. To be on the safe side I also
copied the headers to $VMDBASEDIR/plugins/include (molfile_plugin.h and
vmdplugin.h were already there). 'puts $auto_path' from VMD seems to
points to the correct directory structure.

Yet I cannot seem to find any HOOMD-XML entry in the load/save format
pull-downs.

The approach suggested on the HOOMD site, e. g.:
   package require topotools 1.0
   animate write hoomd file.xml waitfor all

does not work either (Unknown coordinate file type hoomd)

What am I missing? How can I check that the plugin is loaded OK?

Thanks, 

-- 
Benjamin