Functions
	saveFullState ?file?

	dumpRepresentations

Detailed Description

saveFullState is a function to almost completely save the state of a VMD session. Saved state includes the view, materials, colors (as with the usual save state menu item), as well as trajectories and topologies. Loading the saved state completely restores the state a VMD session was in.

Usage

State can then be saved with

1 saveFullState filename.vmd

This will create:

a filename.vmd script, which can be reloaded to recover the state;
a filename.vmd.d directory, containing trajectory data and a snapshot image.

If filename is not provided, a file selection dialog opens up.

To recover a session, just source the script, or use it with the vmd -e option.

Trajectory files are looked up with respect to the current directory. If they are not found, a second attempt is done with the absolute pathnames that were valid at the time the state was saved.

Limitations

Some data is known not to be restored, including:

volumetric data
time-varying variables, such as user

To do

preserve volume data
preserve time-varying data (e.g. user)
option to save only current frame
preserve inferred topologies (parse filespec?)
handle relative paths when loading states [DONE]

Copyright

Most of this proc is copied from the save_state function built-in VMD, which is distributed under the terms of the UIUC Open Source License: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/current/LICENSE.html

Modifications by Toni Giorgino <toni.giorgino isib.cnr.it>

Function Documentation

◆ dumpRepresentations()

dumpRepresentations

Create a list of "mol" commands that reproduce the current top molecule display.

◆ saveFullState()

saveFullState			?file?

Save FULL visualization state, including trajectories Can be reloaded as usual.

Functions