On Jan 24, 2012, at 6:59 AM, Alex Schneider wrote:

Is there a way to activate/show (...not only select) a loaded dockview frame using the chimera COMMAND LINE (show frame 1, show frame 10, show frame 20 ...)? I tried different commands, using models.submodels combinations, no success, I can select different submodels, but, I cannot bring them on the screen without clicking on the dockviewe window.

You can show a viewdock model with the 'modeldisp' command, e.g.:

modeldisp #0.5

modeldisp turns display of the entire model on without changing the display state of individual atoms, so that if you had undisplayed hydrogens previously for instance, hiding the model with ~modeldisp and then showing it with modeldisp would keep the hydrogens hidden.

With tonight's daily build you can activate a model for motion with

select 0.5

(and deactivate it with ~select).  Prior to tonight's build there was a problem parsing submodel numbers in the select command and you would have to use this kludgey alternative:

select 0.5-5

--Eric

                        Eric Pettersen

                        UCSF Computer Graphics Lab

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