Well, it's not a public API, but you seem like a brave sort. ;-)  chimera.tkgui._createMenus(parent) will create a Tk.Menu (with parent as its parent widget), fill it in with the same contents as Chimera's main set of menus, and return that Menu instance.

Should work. :-)

--Eric

                        Eric Pettersen
                        UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
                        http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu

On Apr 10, 2015, at 7:32 PM, "Dougherty, Matthew T" <matthewd@bcm.edu> wrote:

When I am using chimera I am frequently using it with two monitors.  One monitor has the 3D graphics maximized.  The other monitor has the dialog boxes and various control GUI.

Thing get messy when I use the graphics in stereo3D, particularly DTI SBS-half; such as save session.  The cursor does not track easily to the pull down menus of the  3D graphics window.

I would like to copy all the pulldowns (not changing the originals) onto some gui on my other monitor.

Is there an easy way I replicate these pulldowns using an python extension I would write?  Is there one place in the chimera code that sets up the pulldowns?

Matthew Dougherty
National Center for Macromolecular Imaging
Baylor College of Medicine
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