Hi,

my name is Davide and I'm currently working on Marc Marti-Renom's group.

I'm trying to generate an image using chimera with the --nogui option:

chimera --nogui --nostatus --script cmd.py

The file cmd.py contains the following lines:

from chimera import runCommand
runCommand('open input.cmm')
runCommand('copy file image.png  png')

but I keep getting the following error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/src/chimera/share/__main__.py", line 65, in <module>
    value = chimeraInit.init(sys.argv)
  File "CHIMERA/share/chimeraInit.py", line 384, in init
    chimera.openModels.open(a, prefixableType=1)
  File "CHIMERA/share/chimera/__init__.py", line 1344, in open
  File "CHIMERA/share/chimera/__init__.py", line 787, in _openPython
  File "cmd.py", line 3, in <module>
    runCommand('copy file image.png  png')
  File "CHIMERA/share/chimera/__init__.py", line 2025, in runCommand
  File "CHIMERA/share/Midas/midas_text.py", line 62, in makeCommand
  File "CHIMERA/share/Midas/midas_text.py", line 563, in doCopy
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "CHIMERA/share/Midas/__init__.py", line 908, in copy
  File "CHIMERA/share/chimera/printer.py", line 1182, in saveImage
AttributeError: '_chimera.NoGuiViewer' object has no attribute 'pilImages'
Error while processing cmd.py:
AttributeError: '_chimera.NoGuiViewer' object has no attribute 'pilImages'
(see reply log for Python traceback info)

cmd.py was generated from within chimera using the "record" command of chimera's "command line".
If I delete the line "runCommand('copy file image.png  png')", the script execute with no error.

Is it possible to generate images using the --nogui option?

Thanks a lot for your help!

Best regards,
Davide

____________
 Davide Baù
Structural Genomics Unit
Bioinformatics & Genomics Department, Prince Felipe Research Center
Avda. Autopista del Saler, 16 , 46012 Valencia, Spain
Tel: +34 96 328 96 80 (ext. 1021) Fax: +34 96 328 97 01
Email: dbau@cipf.es
Web: http://sgu.bioinfo.cipf.es/dbau