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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Nov 25 2003 - 15:51:28 CST

Dmitry,
  From your description, it sounds like you don't have the NetPBM packages
installed on your Mac yet. These are required in order to use the vmdmovie
plugin at this time. There are instructions for installing NetPBM via the
"fink" package manager for MacOS X on the 'vmdmovie' documentation page here:
  http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/plugins/vmdmovie/

Thanks,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 02:45:34PM -0700, dkon_at_email.arizona.edu wrote:
> Thank you John, indeed this version fixed the issue with the menus. But I'm
> still having problems with vmdmovie:
> 1) If I choose screencapture and mpeg format, it seems to run fine and complete
> the movie rendering, but then I cannot find the resulting file anywhere -
> certainly not in the directory where it's supposed to be.
>
> 2) If I choose animated gif, after screen capture it gives an error that it
> cannot execute convert - cannot find the file - do I need to get that program
> somewhere?
>
> 3) If I choose ray-trace it also gives an error that it cannot execute tgatoppm
> - no such file - can I get that somewhere?
>
> Thank you!
> Dmitry.
>
> Quoting John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu>:
>
> >
> > Dmitry,
> > The problem you're encountering is fixed in the upcoming VMD 1.8.2
> > release. If you wish to test the most recent MacOS X VMD build, I put
> > up VMD 1.8.2 beta 7 for FTP here:
> > ftp://ftp.ks.uiuc.edu/pub/mdscope/vmd/alpha/vmd182b7.dmg
> >
> > Let me know how that works for you.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > John Stone
> > vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 03:42:10PM -0700, Dmitry A Kondrashov wrote:
> > > Hi folks,
> > > I have a problem with using the vmdmovie GUI on the new version of Mac OS
> > > (10.3). The script seems to load fine with the following commands and
> > > responses:
> > > package require vmdmovie 1.0
> > > 1.1
> > > vmd > vmdmovie
> > > .movie
> > >
> > > The GUI window appears, but all the menus (Render, Movie Settings,
> > > etc.) get stuck whenever one is open - there is no way to change anything
> > > or close the menu. If one chooses to render a movie with the default
> > > settings (screen capture, rock and roll), it does seem to go through the
> > > process, but then the file(s) are not there in the directory where it
> > > says... So I am lost and would much appreciate some advice. Thank you,
> > > Dmitry
> >
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> > 

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University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
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