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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Dec 18 2007 - 12:56:55 CST

Oliver,
  I can make you special builds with larger max bond counts.
Will 30 be adequate? I can make it any number you like
up to 255, but the larger the number the more memory VMD will use
on a per-atom basis.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 02:37:42PM -0500, Oliver Beckstein wrote:
> Hello,
>
> is there a way to obtain binaries for Mac OS X and Linux i686 that have
> MAXATOMBONDS increased to, say, 30? I am (ab)using VMD for graph
> plotting and some of my nodes simply don't behave like atoms although
> I'd like to keep using atom-like representations instead of drawing
> bonds as graphics objects because it makes it so much easier to change
> colors, materials etc.
>
> As I understand it, MAXATOMBONDS is defined to be 12 in Atom.h:
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/doxygen/Atom_8h.html
>
> I don't have the VMD source and as I understand it, it can be a bit
> complicated compiling it, though I'd give it a shot if this is too much
> work for the developers (which I would certainly understand).
>
> Thanks,
> Oliver
>
> --
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>
> Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine
> Dept. of Physiology, Biophysics 206
> 725 N. Wolfe St
> Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
>
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