Hi Matt, Chimera uses tabbed windows in a few places. This uses the PMW (Python MegaWidget) toolkit that extends the Tk window toolkit to have fancier widgets. I have not used PMW. I’d suggest finding the closest dialog in Chimera using its Python code as a starting point. There is a session saving example in the Chimera programmer’s guide: http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ProgrammersGuide/Examples/Main_SessionS... User interface programming is a lot of work. Tom
On Apr 29, 2015, at 1:19 PM, Dougherty, Matthew T wrote:
I have been writing some extensions and maxed out my real estate for my control panel buttons, widgets, etc.
I figure I need to rewrite it to be more like the viewer tool, having tabs at the top to select different gui menus.
Can you offer me some ideas for a organizational strategy along with code ideas? Eg, getting menu items to save/restore as part of a session file.
Matthew Dougherty National Center for Macromolecular Imaging Baylor College of Medicine =========================================================================== _______________________________________________ Chimera-dev mailing list Chimera-dev@cgl.ucsf.edu http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-dev