Wow, thanks for all the customizable options here Tom!
I like the buttonpanel feature, I wasn’t aware of that.
I like the snapshot feature because it doesn’t overwrite previous images and I can specify the location to save with directory option. So this alias you’ve created will overwrite the image every time:
alias snap save ~/Desktop/image.png transparentBackground true height 1000
Is there any other way to use the sequential numbering for output files without using snapshot?
The python method also sounds interesting. Do you have some template I can use to get started with this approach?
Thank you!
Matt
From:
Tom Goddard <goddard@sonic.net>
Date: Thursday, April 25, 2024 at 8:01 PM
To: Jaremko, Matt Joseph <matt.jaremko@merck.com>
Cc: chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu>
Subject: Re: [chimerax-users] Add options to snapshot command
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Hi Matt,
I guess you mean you want the Snapshot toolbar icon to do something different. Currently it uses the current ChimeraX window size for saving an image, and it does not make the background transparent. In
general toolbar icon behavior is not customizable. The place that the Snapshot button saves its files is customizable using the snapshot command. I am not keen on adding other rarely useful customizations to how the Snapshot button works. You could make
a command alias that saves images the way you want
alias snap save ~/Desktop/image.png transparentBackground true height 1000
If you wanted that to always be available when you start ChimeraX you could put it in Settings / Startup / "Execute these commands at startup" and Save those settings. If you wanted a button to do custom
things like this you could use the ChimeraX buttonpanel command to create a user interface panel with custom buttons that run whatever command you want, and those can appear every time you start.
You could perhaps replace the "sx" keyboard shortcut with Python code to change the behavior. Or you could write some Python code to add your own custom toolbar button.
On Apr 25, 2024, at 6:57 AM, Jaremko, Matt Joseph via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu>
wrote:
Can you add option to snapshot command like transparentBackground and height to allow more customization of this convenient tool?
Matt J. Jaremko, Ph.D. (He|Him)
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