From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Fri Jul 27 2012 - 02:39:48 CDT

actually, compiling VMD as a python module is already
supported, you have to configure VMD for compilation
with the SHARED option.

axel.

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Olaf Lenz <olenz_at_icp.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
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> Hi!
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> On 07/26/2012 09:40 PM, Caio Silva Souza wrote:
>> Olaf's point of view is interesting. How feasable it would be to
>> make VMD (only for analysis, without a GUI) a Python module in the
>> future?
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> Why without a GUI? Why not make the full software a Python module?
> If you don't see how that could work, have a look at mayavi2, they do
> exactly that.
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> Olaf
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