On Jan 18, 2009, at 7:56 PM, Matthew Dougherty wrote:
I have a command file that has a number of reset commands.
I would like to 1) interrupt a command file during execution, aborting all further commands, stopping the graphics configuration at the abort (e.g. threshold values, active models, etc) 2) be able to place a hold in a command file, say after the a reset command, and be able to continue the command processing after pressing a key on the keyboard.
Does this capability exist?
We don't have #1, though it used to exist in Midas by pressing the Escape key during script execution. I will open a feature request in our Trac database to get this capability back. It will probably take a couple of months for me to get to it. You'll get automated mail from Trac when the implementation happens. I went ahead and implemented #2 since I thought it would be trivial. It turned out to be a little less trivial than I had thought, but not too bad. It will be available as the "pause" command starting with tonight's daily builds. I don't know what your need for these commands are precisely, but you should be aware that the Demo capability of Chimera offers #2 already, though maybe creating a demo is a little more elaborate than what you want. --Eric Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu