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From: Gianluca Interlandi (gianluca_at_u.washington.edu)
Date: Sun Sep 19 2010 - 20:42:36 CDT

Thanks. I realize I should have searched for callbacks instead of
listeners. I will play around.

Gianluca

On Sun, 19 Sep 2010, John Stone wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm not sure if you're looking for mouse position events only, or
> also various types of pick events, but I'd suggest having a look at
> the VMD Tcl callback demo script I've attached to this email for examples
> of how to catch callbacks. See the VMD User's Guide for the list of
> available callbacks and their meaning.
>
> There are some other callbacks for special mouse events and
> spaceball 6DOF position data that you can capture as well, but
> I'm guessing you're mostly interested in the simple ones that are
> well documented in the User's Guide.
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 02:11:41PM -0700, Gianluca Interlandi wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I would like to write a tcl script which is executed by VMD every time the
>> user clicks on the Display window and rotates the molecule. Hence some sort
>> of mouse event listener. Is there a way to do this through TCL?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Gianluca
>>
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>>
>> Postdoc at the Department of Bioengineering
>> at the University of Washington, Seattle WA U.S.A.
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Gianluca Interlandi, PhD gianluca_at_u.washington.edu
                     +1 (206) 685 4435
                     http://artemide.bioeng.washington.edu/

Postdoc at the Department of Bioengineering
at the University of Washington, Seattle WA U.S.A.
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