Re: [chimerax-users] Hopefully simple plugin development question

Barry, The shell tool is under Tools -> General on the ChimeraX menu. There's some API documentation online here: https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/devel/index.html. Models should also have an 'opened_data_format' attribute with info about which file parser was used (e.g. model.opened_data_format.name). This could be one way to limit models to only PDB or whatever you'd be able to support. Tony On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 12:57 PM BARRY E DEZONIA via ChimeraX-users < chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:

Thanks Tom,

How do you invoke this python shell? A quick google search turns up nothing. The command line in the chimerax app does not allow tab completion. I've tried running 'chimerax --nogui' from the command line and that gives me a shell but no tab completion is possible there either. ------------------------------ *From:* Thomas Mulvaney *Sent:* Wednesday, April 19, 2023 1:36 PM *To:* BARRY E DEZONIA *Cc:* chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu *Subject:* Re: [chimerax-users] Hopefully simple plugin development question

Hi Barry,

The list of current models the user is viewing is in the `session.models` variable.

Assuming the user has only one PDB file open, you can just do `session.models[0].filename` which will return the path to the PDB file they opened.

I've discovered most of the functionality I needed by poking around in the Python Shell that ships with ChimeraX and hitting tab to find out the attributes and methods that objects have.

Hope that helps,

Tom — Tom Mulvaney PhD Student Centre for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB) Research Group of Prof. Dr. Maya Topf c/o DESY, Building 15 Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg Germany

On 19. Apr 2023, at 20:05, BARRY E DEZONIA via ChimeraX-users < chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:

Hello,

I am looking at writing a plugin for chimerax that takes a pdb and runs some python code that will calc some stuff hand stuff to other programs. I know how to do this. What I want to know is how to find the current model's name / associated pdb filename from my plugin. Imagine my plugin really is just a "Run" button that looks up the current model, generates the associated pdb filename, and passes that name to my python script. Can someone tell me how in a chimerax plugin I can make the call that will give me the pdb filename I want? I've read much of the developer docs and could not find what I was looking for. _______________________________________________ ChimeraX-users mailing list ChimeraX-users@cgl.ucsf.edu Manage subscription: https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimerax-users

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