Hi Konrad, This is certainly a bug and we'll fix it today. The fix will be in tonight's Chimera daily builds (compiled 9 pm - midnight Pacific time). Thanks for reporting it. Tom
This works perfectly well, except for one point: a session containing such models cannot be saved to a session file:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Applications/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.7/ site-packages/Pmw/Pmw_1_3/lib/PmwBase.py", line 1747, in __call__ return apply(self.func, args) File "/Applications/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/share/chimera/ baseDialog.py", line 342, in command getattr(s, buttonFuncName(txt))() File "/Applications/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/share/OpenSave/ __init__.py", line 237, in Save getattr(self, self.keepEquiv())() File "/Applications/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/share/chimera/ baseDialog.py", line 560, in OK self.Apply() File "/Applications/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/share/OpenSave/ __init__.py", line 169, in Apply self.command(1, self) File "/Applications/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/share/ SimpleSession/gui.py", line 24, in _saveCB saveSession(paths[0]) File "/Applications/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/share/ SimpleSession/save.py", line 151, in saveSession source = v.openedAs[0] AttributeError: '_vrml.VRMLModel' object has no attribute 'openedAs'
Should this be considered a bug or the fair punishment for using undocumented features?
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On 7 Jan 2011, at 19:12, Tom Goddard wrote:
You can use the Chimera BILD format without creating a temporary file by creating a string containing the commands, then use StringIO to make a file object from that string and open it. For example,
from StringIO import StringIO bild = StringIO(".cylinder %g %g %g %g %g %g %g\n" % (end1[0], end1[1], end1[2], end2[0], end2[1], end2[2], radius)) from chimera import openModels model = openModels.open(bild, type="Bild", identifyAs='My annotations', sameAs = mol)
The identifyAs argument assigns the name to the new model that will be shown in the Model Panel dialog. The sameAs argument says that the new model should be aligned with the specified model (same positioning transform).