VMD Control Panel error

[jomaldon]

Hello:
Pycontact is a really nice program... you guys deserve the best.

I'm facing a problem when trying to use the VMD Control Panel. PyContact connect without problems with VMD but, whey trying to load topology and trajectory files, the console shows this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/pycontact-1.0.4-py3.8-linux-x86_64.egg/PyContact/gui/VMDControlPanel.py", line 184, in loadTopoTraj
self.prepareVMDWithTopoTraj(cfg[0], cfg[1])
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/pycontact-1.0.4-py3.8-linux-x86_64.egg/PyContact/gui/VMDControlPanel.py", line 172, in prepareVMDWithTopoTraj
self.vmd.send_command("mol new %s" % top)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/pycontact-1.0.4-py3.8-linux-x86_64.egg/PyContact/gui/VMDControlPanel.py", line 102, in send_command
self.tcpClientSocket.send(str(cmd + "\n"))
TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'

So, I desided to load those files manually into connected VMD. Now, when actigating the "Vismode" and selecting some molecule interaction in PyContact to be shown into VMD, a simmilar error rise... always the "TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'."

My Python version is 3.8.10 and PyContact version is 1.0.4.

Thanks

[maxscheurer]

I haven't been maintaining the VMD control panel for quite a bit because I didn't use it myself anymore, sorry 😞
If you find + can fix the error, feel free to open a PR!

[vas2201]

I just resolved the issue, please change line around 102 : /PyContact/gui/VMDControlPanel.py
def send_command(self, cmd):
if self.tcpClientSocket:
# Convert the string command to bytes before sending
self.tcpClientSocket.send((cmd + "\n").encode('utf-8'))
but I have issues while sliding the contacts on gui as shown in video, not switchable to target state.