Hi Masako, You want to create a movie by running Chimera in the background (no windows, no console). You are trying the right approach, using "headless" Chimera. I'm afraid the movie command may not work with headless (ie background, no windows) Chimera. Headless Chimera can't create any dialog windows and it may be that the movie command internally relies on the Movie Recorder dialog. I don't know for sure. Your error is caused by the movie command trying to monitor changes in the Chimera graphics window (which does not exist). I can fix that and see if there are subsequent errors. I'll try this today or tomorrow. Image saving works with headless Chimera, but I have not tried background movie recording in the past -- obviously useful though. Tom
Hi, Tom. I hope you had a nice vacation :)
I was able to run very simple command script with headless chimera, but I am getting these errors trying to save a simple spinning movie...
reading final.mrc 2.2 Mb 0% Done reading final.mrc final.mrc opened reading final.mrc 18 Mb 0% Done reading final.mrc Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/mterada/opt/UCSF/Chimera-headless/share/chimeraInit.py", line 422, in init chimera.openModels.open(a, prefixableType=1) File "/home/mterada/opt/UCSF/Chimera-headless/share/chimera/__init__.py", line 1510, in open models = func(filename, *args, **kw) File "/home/mterada/opt/UCSF/Chimera-headless/share/Midas/ChimeraExtension.py", line 32, in func processCommandFile(cmdFile) File "/home/mterada/opt/UCSF/Chimera-headless/share/Midas/midas_text.py", line 104, in processCommandFile _processFile(f, emulateRead, filename) File "/home/mterada/opt/UCSF/Chimera-headless/share/Midas/midas_text.py", line 135, in _processFile if makeCommand(line): File "/home/mterada/opt/UCSF/Chimera-headless/share/Midas/midas_text.py", line 65, in makeCommand f(c, args) File "/home/mterada/opt/UCSF/Chimera-headless/share/MovieRecorder/ChimeraExtension.py", line 25, in doMovieCmd doExtensionFunc(MovieRecorder.processMovieCmd, args) File "/home/mterada/opt/UCSF/Chimera-headless/share/Midas/midas_text.py", line 426, in doExtensionFunc extFunc(*tuple(processedArgs), **kw) File "/home/mterada/opt/UCSF/Chimera-headless/share/MovieRecorder/__init__.py", line 207, in processMovieCmd director = getDirector() File "/home/mterada/opt/UCSF/Chimera-headless/share/MovieRecorder/__init__.py", line 342, in getDirector director = Director.Director() File "/home/mterada/opt/UCSF/Chimera-headless/share/MovieRecorder/Director.py", line 69, in __init__ top = chimera.tkgui.app.winfo_toplevel() AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'tkgui' Error while processing makeimage.cmd: AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'tkgui'
File "/home/mterada/opt/UCSF/Chimera-headless/share/MovieRecorder/Director.py", line 69, in __init__ top = chimera.tkgui.app.winfo_toplevel()
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This same command script saves spinning movie with no problem, so I am guessing it's headless chimera not having GUI... Is there a way around it?
Thanks,
Masako