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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Tue Apr 10 2012 - 18:16:03 CDT

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Jose Borreguero <borreguero_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear VMD users,
>
> I have the following little script that reads an AMBER dcd trajectory and
> outputs a dcd trajectory formatted by VMD:
>
> mol new system.top type parm7
> animate read dcd amber.dcd  beg 0 end 9
> animate write dcd vmd.dcd  beg 0 end 9 waitfor all
>
> The script works well when entering the commands one by one in the main vmd
> window. However, if submitted as a script  ( vmd -dispdev none  -e
> script.tcl ), it will only save the first frame, that is, vmd.dcd will
> contain only the first frame.
>
> I am  new to scripting with VMD, I really don't know what I am missing here.

the "waitfor all" at the read.

axel.

> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Best regards,
> Jose 

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Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer
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College of Science and Technology
Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA.