Hi Jerome, We don't have the chimerax --send option to open files in an already running ChimeraX, although we plan on adding it. I have two ideas for how to do this in current ChimeraX. One is to use the remotecontrol command to tell ChimeraX to accept commands via http. In ChimeraX I enable this with command remote rest start port 58123 Then http requests can run commands in ChimeraX. The http url can be entered in a web browser or from a script. From a script you could use curl or wget programs, for example, curl http://localhost:58123/run?command=open+/Users/goddard/Downloads/ChimeraX/PD... <http://localhost:58123/run?command=open+/Users/goddard/Downloads/ChimeraX/PDB/1a0m>.cif You could make ChimeraX alway enable http requests by putting the "remote..." command in ChimeraX Settings/Preferences under the Startup tab "Execute these commands at startup". The other idea I have is simpler but did not work in my test. ChimeraX accepts files dragged and dropped on the application. On macOS (and probably Linux and Windows) I should be able to run a shell command that says drop this file on ChimeraX. On Mac the shell command looks like % open -a /Applications/ChimeraX.app ~/Downloads/ChimeraX/PDB/1a0m.cif That worked for starting ChimeraX and showing the first file. But when I run it again to open a different it merely raised ChimeraX and did not open the new file. That is a bug. I've made a bug report for it. I don't know the equivalent commands on Linux and Windows and whether the would work. Tom
On May 12, 2020, at 1:50 AM, Jerome Mutterer <jerome.mutterer@ibmp-cnrs.unistra.fr> wrote:
Dear all, I'm trying to transition from Chimera to ChimeraX, but my workflow relies on passing scripts to an open, with GUI, instance of Chimera using --send https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/options.html#send <https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/options.html#send>
I see that this is not described here: https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/devel/apps/ChimeraX/ChimeraX.html <https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/devel/apps/ChimeraX/ChimeraX.html>
Is that still available somehow in ChimeraX? Thanks for any input. Sincerely, Jerome.
-- Jerome Mutterer CNRS - Institut de biologie moléculaire des plantes 12, rue du Général Zimmer 67084 Strasbourg Cedex www.ibmp.cnrs.fr <http://www.ibmp.cnrs.fr/>
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