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 ===========================================================================
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
Hi Matt, Also, to remember interface settings across Chimera invocations, one uses a "hidden category" of preferences for your tool. See StructMeasure/prefs.py for an example of creating such a category. The 'prefs' variable created by that code can then be used like a dictionary: prefs[ANGLE_PRECISION] returns the preferred number of decimal places to show for angle values, whereas: prefs[ANGLE_PRECISION] = 3 would both set and save that value (hidden categories auto-save). There is a more complicated example of setting up a hidden category in MultAlignViewer/prefs.py. --Eric Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu On May 4, 2015, at 10:29 AM, Tom Goddard <goddard@sonic.net> wrote:
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
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