Hi Ben, The Chimera programming documentation is limited. http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ProgrammersGuide/index.html The most useful section is probably the examples. Also there is a page of example Python scripts on the developer site. http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/trac/chimera/wiki/Scripts Tab completion in the IDLE Python shell works for me on Mac 10.6 with Chimera 1.7. For example import chimera chimera.open[TAB] brings up the scrollable list of completions. Arrow keys let me go through them and complete my typed text. But clicking with the mouse on one of the completions does not cause it to complete my text and then the cursor disappears -- pretty dysfunctional. Is this what you observe? If not, maybe you should use Help / Report a Bug.... But it is very likely an IDLE bug not a Chimera bug. Tom -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Chimera-users] IDLE : code completion under MAC OS X From: Benjamin SCHWARZ To: UCSF Chimera Mailing List Date: 4/12/13 4:38 AM

Hello,

I started to develop simple python/chimera scripts. The manual is rather poor on these aspects (btw, is there a doxygen somewhere ?), and therefore the code completion in the chimera IDLE shell is particularly useful… Unfortunately, on my MAC (OS X), it appears to be messy : the TAB key triggers the usual "completion scrollable list window" on both my windows and linux (debian) machines, but not on my MAC. Note that I am still able to scroll through the "invisible" choices by pressing TAB and then using the up and down arrows, it is just that I cannot see the list, which is a bit annoying to have a clear view at once. I guess this has more something to do with the IDLE configuration than with chimera itself, but I don't know how to dig that up, so if you have any idea how to solve this I'd be pleased to read from it.

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