Hi Chris, There is currently no provision for "chimera --send file" to specify which Chimera the file should be sent to. If multiple Chimera instances are running on the same machine as the same user then the instance whose main window most recently had the input focus is the one that gets the file. You could exploit that by somehow giving the focus to the instance you want before doing the "chimera --send". This will be erratic unless you have a means of setting the focus that is synchronous so you can be sure it happened before the "chimera --send" is run. Another ugly approach is to run your Chimera instances under different user accounts on the same machine. The chimera --send implementation uses a socket with a randomly assigned port number. The port number is put into a file on the local file system specific to the user. When "chimera --send" is run it looks for that file to get the port number. There's no provision in the code to keep track of multiple Chimera instances listening on different ports. Instead, when a Chimera instance gets the input focus, it overwrites the file containing the port number. This code is in chimera/share/DBPuppet/__init__.py see the portOnTop(), write_webinfo(), remove_webinfo() routines. A better design to handle your case would allow you to specify the port number when you start a Chimera instance and also when you later use chimera --send. I guess you are doing interesting stuff with Chimera on a tiled wall. I'd be interested in hearing some details. Tom -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Chimera-users] Chimera --send command From: cdlau@ucsd.edu To: chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu Date: 7/12/09 7:32 PM
Hi,
I am currently running chimera remotely on a computer using "ssh" commands. I have been using the "chimera --send" command to send cmd and python scripts to a computer running chimera. I was wondering if it were possible for me to run 2 or more instances of Chimera on a computer and control which instance of Chimera the "--send" script is executed by.
Thanks for your help,
Chris _______________________________________________ Chimera-users mailing list Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users