2021/08/20: I uploaded a new version v9.4.4 to http://montecarlo.sourceforge.net/ which includes a corrected EMC GUI plugin for VMD. Check out ./vmd/README on how to include this GUI with your VMD.
Thank you for your contribution.
However, I failed to add the GUI plugin to VMD these days following everything described in the README file. Every time I initiated VMD, the error line ‘can’t find package Thread’ popped out.
I have installed the TCL extension ‘thread 2.8.5’, and ‘tclsh’ actually can find the pacakge Thread.
I just don’t understand why VMD can’t locate it during initiation.
I have tried to add auto_path before the line ‘package require Thread’ in the file ‘gui.tcl’.
I have also tried to create a pkgIndex.tcl file.
I think maybe it’s better to put the packages directly into the dir of VMD according to the ’ Writing Tcl/Tk plugins and extensions for VMD’ (https://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/plugins/doxygen/tcltkplugins.html).
Cassie,
Thank you for your report. I am sorry to hear you don’t seem to be able to get the plugin to work. I seem to recall, that VMD comes with its own Tcl, which means, that adding a package to your system Tcl might not work. Which operating system are you trying to add the plugin for?
Pieter
Update: I noticed, that VMD v1.9.4 uses a different Tcl version, which conflicts with the solution I chose for following EMC’s progress during building in VMD. The GUI was designed to work with VMD v1.9.3. As of August 1, 2022, the EMC GUI has been updated to work with VMD v1.9.4 and has been tested for Windows.
Pieter