Hi Mungo, As for Chimera standalone (notifications sent to stdout rather than a REST service), I experimented a bit. Using the Mac version of Chimera, I opened a structure and changed selections after using the command: listen start selection (A) when I started Chimera by clicking the icon, I’m not sure where the notifications went (I didn’t know where to look for stdout) (B) when I started Chimera from the Terminal prompt as per <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/startup.html>, I could see the notifications in that same Terminal window. For example: [chopin:~] meng% /Applications/Chimera1.10.1.app/Contents/MacOS/chimera SelectionChanged: selection changed SelectionChanged: selection changed Thus it is working at some level, although a more complete answer regarding notifications to a REST service may not be forthcoming until our expert on this topic returns to work in a couple of days. Best, Elaine ---------- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco
On May 1, 2015, at 8:43 AM, Mungo Carstairs (Staff) <g.m.carstairs@dundee.ac.uk> wrote:
Hi,
I am trying out a REST listener for selections in Chimera and need help. I can talk to Chimera over REST. I can start an Http listener in Jalview - and verify it in my browser. I have sent this command to Chimera:
listen start selection rest http://134.36.162.131:64745/
Then silence. I haven't managed to provoke Chimera into sending me a SelectionChanged notification. I am making selections in the Chimera window - as I can see by the 'Inspect Selection' panel.
I have also started Chimera standalone (no REST service) and tried the listen command in the command line, but yet to see any output on a selection.
What have I missed or how can I diagnose what I am doing wrong here?
Thanks, Mungo Carstairs