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From: Dan Wright (dtwright_at_uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Nov 11 2005 - 17:00:07 CST

Hey, that's very interesting! I've been getting that error in a script I'm
working on as well, but I assumed it was just something I needed to fix as I'm
still debugging. Though I did look into it and didn't see any obvious cause.
  John, do you have any thoughts?

Dan

Axel Kohlmeyer wrote:
> hi,
>
> is there a simple way to turn off picking mode
> from _inside_ a picking mode tracing function?
>
> please have a look at the attached scriptlet.
> after two atoms have been picked it should
> go back to rotation (mouse mode 0), but i get
> get 'illegal mouse mode 0 -1' instead and
> picking mode stays active.
>
> for my current purposes, i can work around this,
> but i'd like to know, whether this is a pricipal
> problem or just bad script design.
>
> btw: this happens with vmd-1.8.3 and vmd-1.8.4-beta1.
>
> thanks,
> axel.
> 

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