Great! Both answers have been useful! Just two small questions: 1. Is it possible to call for an accelerator from the python shell using runCommand? 2. Could I rename the individual surfaces? Cheers! JD On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 12:04 -0700, Tom Goddard wrote:
Hi JD,
You can split the surfnet surface into separate selectable pieces by selecting the whole surface (ctrl-left-button) then using keyboard shortcut "Sc" (split connected pieces). You have to enable keyboard shortcuts with menu entry Tools / General Controls / Accelerators On. After this you can select individual pieces and measure their volumes with the "mv" shortcut. You can select all of the pieces and use "mv" to get a list of volumes for all the pieces. "ma" lists areas. Each piece is numbered and you that number will be shown in a pop-up if you the mouse over it.
You can run the measure volumes shortcut (mv) from Python code using:
import MeasureVolume MeasureVolume.report_selected_volumes()
This code is in your Chimera distribution in chimera/share/MeasureVolume/__init__.py.
Tom