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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon Sep 25 2006 - 09:18:08 CDT

Hi,
  There's no race condition (which would imply non-determinism),
but you're absolutely correct that updated plugins aren't loaded
until after VMD has run through its startup scripts and .vmdrc etc.
This is due to some historical aspects of the way VMD starts up.
One of many small things that still needs improvement...

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 09:45:26AM -0400, Axel Kohlmeyer wrote:
> hi!
>
> one additional remark: when trying to override the internal plugins
> you should not load molecule files directly from the command line.
> there is some kind of race condition between the loading of the
> data and the re-initialization of the plugins. so you need to make
> sure that vmd is fully up and running before loading files. otherwise
> the file may still be loaded with the old plugin.
>
> axel.
>
> On 9/25/06, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> >
> >Rob,
> > If you started with the versions in the VMD source tree,
> >then yes, cranking the minor version number by one should do it:
> >e.g.:
> > 0, /* major version */
> > 2, /* minor version */
> >
> >change to:
> > 0, /* major version */
> > 3, /* minor version */
> >
> > John
> >
> [...]
>
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