VMD Plugin Programmer's Guide

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The Plugin Programmer's Guide describes the structure and organization of the VMD plugin system, and provides information on how to write your own plugins.

Plugin development topics

• Introduction to VMD plugins
• Plugin source files and directory structure
• Compiling plugins from source code
• Plugin development best practices guide
• Writing Tcl/Tk based plugins and extensions for VMD
• Writing Python based plugins and extensions for VMD
• Writing C/C++ based molecule file reader/writer plugins for VMD
• Writing C/C++ plugins with shared libraries
• Calling molecule file reader/writer plugins from other C/C++/Fortran software

Related topics:

• Plugin-specific documentation and usage notes
• VMD Programmer's Guide

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