On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, David E. Konerding wrote:
I was wondering if it would be possible to publish the Collaboratory IDL files? I would like to make a remote control application for chimera, but don't want to use the puppet extension. It seems like a nice way to do this would be to use the Collaboratory interface.
That's an intriguing suggestion. We consider the Collaboratory IDL an private internal interface and highly subject to change (e.g., from release to release and we're thinking about switching to a non-CORBA mechanism to minimize firewall issues). So while it would be possible to control chimera via the CORBA interface, it would be a lot of work for something that is likely to break. The puppet extension is the prefered remote-control mechanism. It is publicly exposed via the --send command line argument. And you can send files to a running chimera, including Python .py files and chimera command .cmd files. If chimera isn't running, it will start up with the given files (although not in the background yet). So what is the real issue? Do you want a continuous remote interface to chimera? Is the overhead of the --send option a problem? Please tell us. There are probably alternative solutions that are better. - Greg