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From: Chang Hu (changhu_at_cs.umd.edu)
Date: Thu May 04 2006 - 13:24:47 CDT

It works now. Thanks a lot. I guess the next thing would be trying to
pick one atom. I'll look into pick_move() first.

Thanks,
 Chang

John Stone wrote:

>Chang,
> I included some general information about the control flow of the
>main VMD loop in the VMD Programmer's Guide, which you'll want to
>become familiar with:
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/doxygen/execution.html#execution
>
>Once you've read that, see the VMDupdate() method docs:
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/doxygen/classVMDApp.html#a213
>
>...and the sources in VMDApp.[Ch]
> // redraw the screen and update all things that need updating
> int VMDApp::VMDupdate(int check_for_events) {
> }
>
>
>Without knowing more about what you're doing, I'm not sure which code
>to point you at next, but I suspect that a relatively simple example that
>relates well to what you're doing is the FPS indicator:
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/doxygen/classFPS.html
>
>Enjoy,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
>On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 12:58:12PM -0400, Chang Hu wrote:
>
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I am trying to hack into the source code to render a ball and mouse
>>cursor position in the OpenGL window. However I didn't find a way to
>>refresh the screen or delete previous I drew. I remember there's some
>>Tcl scripts like "graphics delete ...". Is there a way to do it in the
>>source code?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Chang
>>
>>
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