Toolbar and Favorite on PC
Hello all,
when running chimera on my PC (windows XP), my toolbar stopped being displayed. If I uninstall and reinstall chimera, my toolbar comes back until the next reboot. How can I fix that ? Is there to restore my preferences after launching chimera?
Regards
Jean-Francois
Jean-Fran�ois M�n�tret, PhD Boston University School of Medicine Physiology and Biophysics Department 700 Albany Street W315 Boston, MA 02118 Email: menetret@bu.edu Mailing address: 715 Albany Street
Hi Jean-Francois,
I'm puzzled about your disappearing Chimera toolbar. It seems Chimera is not finding its preferences file. The location of the preferences file is set using Chimera menu entry
Favorites / Preferences, category Preferences
The path of the preferences files may be relative to the directory where Chimera starts. If you start Chimera by clicking an icon in Windows XP the start-up directory is set for the icon. Right click on the Chimera icon and choose Properties and look at the "Start in" field. This should help you find your Chimera preferences file.
Tom
Hi Tom,
I have set the location of the preferences file as you just described. That helps, thank you
Now, something else that disapears: in the volume viewer, if I add a few new features then click "Save Default Dialog Settings", the new features are forgotten the next time I reopen Chimera ... Is there a way to fix that?
Jean-Francois
Jean-Fran�ois M�n�tret, PhD Boston University School of Medicine Physiology and Biophysics Department 700 Albany Street W315 Boston, MA 02118 Email: menetret@bu.edu Mailing address: 715 Albany Street
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Thomas Goddard wrote:
Hi Jean-Francois,
I'm puzzled about your disappearing Chimera toolbar. It seems Chimera is not finding its preferences file. The location of the preferences file is set using Chimera menu entry
Favorites / Preferences, category Preferences
The path of the preferences files may be relative to the directory where Chimera starts. If you start Chimera by clicking an icon in Windows XP the start-up directory is set for the icon. Right click on the Chimera icon and choose Properties and look at the "Start in" field. This should help you find your Chimera preferences file.
Tom
Hi Jean-Francois,
There is a bug in Chimera 1.2304 that prevents saving default volume dialog settings. It generates an error message. I've fixed the problem in our code. If you want to fix it in your copy of Chimera you can edit the text file:
chimera/share/VolumeViewer/defaultsettings.py
changing line 194 from
p['shown_panels'] = d.shown_panel_names()
to
p['shown_panels'] = map(lambda p: p.name, d.shown_panels())
Then restart Chimera.
This fix will be in the next Chimera snapshot.
Tom
Hi Jean-Francois,
In a previous message I suggested looking at the Chimera Preferences dialog, category Preferences, to see where the preferences file is saved. But I don't recommend changing that setting. Changing the setting only changes where Chimera preferences are saved for the current session. Next time you start Chimera it will not use that location unless it is the first preferences file Chimera finds. Why not? Because Chimera can only remember settings by placing them in the preferences file so it does not save the location of the preferences file even if you press the Save button on the dialog because it would not be useful. I believe Chimera looks in the 3 places listed in that menu in the listed order (preferences, .chimera/preferences, $HOME/.chimera/preferences) and uses the first location where the file exists. So if you have a file called preferences in the directory where Chimera starts and you change the menu setting to ".chimera/preferences" then any new preference settings will occur in ".chimera/preferences". But next time you start you will still get the settings from the preferences file in the start-up directory and not the newer ones in file ".chimera/preferences".
This is so confusing I am going to report it as a bug.
Tom
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