On Aug 27, 2010, at 8:53 AM, Forbes J. Burkowski wrote:

Hi:

At the risk of being a heretic, I would like to ask the following question:

Is it possible to use the Wingware Python IDE instead of IDLE to edit and execute Python scripts for Chimera?

More information about Wingware can be found at wingware.com.

I suppose that if Wingware is given the appropriate pathnames it could import chimera and other needed packages. So, it could be used as Python script editor. However, I am hoping that it could also be used to run and debug scripts that interact with the Chimera window. Would this be possible?

First off: heretic!

;-)

Second, the new face in our lab, Darren Weber, has developed a wiki page describing how to get the Eclipse IDE to work with Chimera:

http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/trac/chimera/wiki/ChimeraEclipse

Perhaps some of the information there could be adapted to getting Wingware to interface with Chimera.

--Eric

Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu