On Apr 7, 2006, at 1:17 PM, Shafrir, Yinon ((NIH/NCI)) [F] wrote:
Also, when I select the chain and use the write command in this manner “write selected su1.pdb” the save dialog box pops up (even though I designated a filename)
When I try “write selected 0 su1.pdb” nothing happens.
Elaine covered most of the answer here. Just a couple of things... The first write command you mention is missing the model number. So Chimera interprets "su1.pdb" as the model number (which is obviously kind of stupid) and the file name as missing, so it brings up a browser. I'll fix things so that it does some sanity checking on the "model number" and issues a syntax error in this case. The second write command probably did work but silently. I'll add a status message when the write command succeeds so that it doesn't seem like nothing happened. Also, the file gets written into the "current working directory", which may not be anyplace useful on Windows or the Mac, so on those platforms you may want to specify a complete path name for the file (or use the browser version of the command). --Eric Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab pett@cgl.ucsf.edu http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu