Package Scientific :: Package Visualization :: Module VMD :: Class VMDObject
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Class VMDObject

Known Subclasses:

Graphics object for VMD

This is an abstract base class. Use one of the subclasses to generate graphics.

Instance Methods
 
__copy__(self)
 
__getitem__(self, attr)
Returns: the value of the attribute, or None if the attribute is undefined
 
__init__(self, attr)
 
__setitem__(self, attr, value)
 
writeToFile(self, file)
Class Variables
  attribute_names = ['comment']
Method Details

__getitem__(self, attr)
(Indexing operator)

 
Parameters:
  • attr (str) - the name of a graphics attribute
Returns:
the value of the attribute, or None if the attribute is undefined

__init__(self, attr)
(Constructor)

 
Parameters:
  • attr - graphics attributes specified by keywords
  • material (Material) - color and surface properties
  • comment (str) - a comment that is written to the script file

__setitem__(self, attr, value)
(Index assignment operator)

 
Parameters:
  • attr (str) - the name of a graphics attribute
  • value - a new value for the attribute