Hello everyone,
From what I’ve gathered, I can save custom presets in a text file with Chimera commands, directly as I would type them in the Command console. So for example my custom preset file is simple, for testing purposes:
ribbon protein color white protein repr sphere :CAL disp :CAL I’ve saved the file with a .com extension (as specified here http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/preferences.html#Presets), and then indicated the directory it’s in by Clicking on Presets > Add Custom Presets … (after selecting it, I press the Save button).
From here, I’m a bit lost. I think the file is not detected as I get no new options under the Presets tab, nor does the command `preset list c` give any output in the Reply log. Also closing and opening Chimera again does not help (although the custom preset folder is remembered if I try the previous steps).
What am I doing wrong? Best regards, Juan
Hi Juan, I see that the documentation isn’t quite clear that you have name the file “something.preset.com" (not just “something.com"). Sorry about that; I will try to improve the description. In other words, If I put a file named juan.com in my preset directory it does not show up in the Presets menu, but if I name it juan.preset.com, it does show up. Otherwise, it sounds like you are doing everything right. I hope this helps, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco
On Mar 21, 2018, at 9:19 AM, Eiros Zamora, Juan <j.eiros-zamora14@imperial.ac.uk> wrote:
Hello everyone,
From what I’ve gathered, I can save custom presets in a text file with Chimera commands, directly as I would type them in the Command console. So for example my custom preset file is simple, for testing purposes:
ribbon protein color white protein repr sphere :CAL disp :CAL
I’ve saved the file with a .com extension (as specified here http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/preferences.html#Presets), and then indicated the directory it’s in by Clicking on Presets > Add Custom Presets … (after selecting it, I press the Save button).
From here, I’m a bit lost. I think the file is not detected as I get no new options under the Presets tab, nor does the command `preset list c` give any output in the Reply log. Also closing and opening Chimera again does not help (although the custom preset folder is remembered if I try the previous steps).
What am I doing wrong? Best regards, Juan
I see! It works now, thanks for helping out. Cheers Juan
On 21 Mar 2018, at 16:58, Elaine Meng <meng@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
Hi Juan, I see that the documentation isn’t quite clear that you have name the file “something.preset.com" (not just “something.com"). Sorry about that; I will try to improve the description. In other words, If I put a file named juan.com in my preset directory it does not show up in the Presets menu, but if I name it juan.preset.com, it does show up.
Otherwise, it sounds like you are doing everything right. I hope this helps, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco
On Mar 21, 2018, at 9:19 AM, Eiros Zamora, Juan <j.eiros-zamora14@imperial.ac.uk> wrote:
Hello everyone,
From what I’ve gathered, I can save custom presets in a text file with Chimera commands, directly as I would type them in the Command console. So for example my custom preset file is simple, for testing purposes:
ribbon protein color white protein repr sphere :CAL disp :CAL
I’ve saved the file with a .com extension (as specified here http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/preferences.html#Presets), and then indicated the directory it’s in by Clicking on Presets > Add Custom Presets … (after selecting it, I press the Save button).
From here, I’m a bit lost. I think the file is not detected as I get no new options under the Presets tab, nor does the command `preset list c` give any output in the Reply log. Also closing and opening Chimera again does not help (although the custom preset folder is remembered if I try the previous steps).
What am I doing wrong? Best regards, Juan
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