thanks, works as intended. More like a cockpit than Rube Goldberg. for the problem at hand I get a session file from a researcher, its organization of model names is essentially random text. I need to rename dozens of models to something that means something. The less I use a mouse for repetitive tasks, less aggravating it is. Moving it a cm is ok, moving it 6" one way, 7" another, keyboard input, then press ok, 50x. Much of my development is making the UI easier to work with. People can be lazy, particularly for what they see as intermediate stuff. When the dialog box comes up, is there a way I can place it in a specific location? Matthew Dougherty National Center for Macromolecular Imaging Baylor College of Medicine ================================================= ================================================= ________________________________ From: Eric Pettersen <pett@cgl.ucsf.edu> Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 4:56 PM To: Dougherty, Matthew T Cc: chimera-dev@cgl.ucsf.edu Subject: Re: [chimera-dev] Model panel rename On Oct 13, 2015, at 2:31 PM, Eric Pettersen <pett@cgl.ucsf.edu<mailto:pett@cgl.ucsf.edu>> wrote: from ModelPanel.base import _mp as mp Upon further reflection, the above line isn't the best way to get the Model Panel instance, since it uses a private variable and it doesn't create the Model Panel if needed. Use the following instead from ModelPanel import ModelPanel from chimera import dialogs mp = dialogs.display(ModelPanel.name) -Eric