On Aug 5, 2009, at 2:32 AM, Schulz-Gasch, Tanja wrote:

Dear Eric,

your movie making recommendations were indeed very helpful. Thanks again!

Hi Tanja -- glad I could help!

I am currently preparing a show for visitors at Roche that are interested in 3D modelling and I want to do this with
Chimera. I have alreday started scripting. However, I would like to have breaks in the scripts in case that there are
questions. So my question is, is there a possibility to implement a prompt in the Chimera script that waits only
the users presses 'return' or whatever and then Chimera is running further through the script?

The daily build has a few things that will help here. First, there is a "pause" command that will cause a script to pause until any key other than Escape or End is pressed. Those two keys will cause the script to abort instead of continuing.

Secondly, even without an explicit "pause" command any script can be paused by hitting Shift-Escape. A second Shift-Escape will continue the script. Also, plain Escape (no Shift) will cause any script to abort.

I hope the presentation goes well!

--Eric

Eric Pettersen

UCSF Computer Graphics Lab