Hi Oliver, I am loathe to add a general command that no one will ever type in the command line or put in a command script, and that completely depends on the state of a running graphical tool (e.g. the check states of the model panel Skip buttons). Nonetheless, there is nothing stopping you from defining a special-purpose command for your needs. There are many examples in the Chimera Recipes pages (e.g. Connect nearby atoms | ChimeraX Recipes https://rbvi.github.io/chimerax-recipes/connect/connect.html). In your case, since the commands you're defining takes no arguments, the corresponding Python functions would take only a "session" argument, and you could omit the 'required' and 'keyword' arguments in their CmdDesc definitions. The actual Python functions would be pretty simple:

def next_model(session): from chimera.model_panel.tool import model_panel mp = model_panel(session, "Model Panel") mp._next_model()

def previous_model(session): from chimera.model_panel.tool import model_panel mp = model_panel(session, "Model Panel") mp._previous_model()

--Eric

Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab

On Jan 19, 2024, at 8:37 AM, Oliver Clarke via ChimeraX-users chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu wrote:

Hi all,

I really like the new sequential model display controls in the daily build - thank you so much for implementing these! Would it be possible to add them as a command, e.g. nextmodel and prevmodel?

This way I could add them to my box of buttons, and have them in the main GUI window, without needing to switch over to the model panel.

Cheers Oli

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Yes, you put them in a .py file and open that .py file in your startup commands.

--Eric

On Jan 19, 2024, at 12:13 PM, Oliver Clarke olibclarke@gmail.com wrote:

Thanks Eric!

Is there any way to run a few simple python functions like this at startup, in the same way that one can add commands to the startup section of the preferences?

Cheers Oli

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On Jan 19, 2024, at 3:10 PM, Eric Pettersen pett@cgl.ucsf.edu wrote:

Hi Oliver, I am loathe to add a general command that no one will ever type in the command line or put in a command script, and that completely depends on the state of a running graphical tool (e.g. the check states of the model panel Skip buttons). Nonetheless, there is nothing stopping you from defining a special-purpose command for your needs. There are many examples in the Chimera Recipes pages (e.g. Connect nearby atoms | ChimeraX Recipes https://rbvi.github.io/chimerax-recipes/connect/connect.html). In your case, since the commands you're defining takes no arguments, the corresponding Python functions would take only a "session" argument, and you could omit the 'required' and 'keyword' arguments in their CmdDesc definitions. The actual Python functions would be pretty simple:

def next_model(session): from chimera.model_panel.tool import model_panel mp = model_panel(session, "Model Panel") mp._next_model()

def previous_model(session): from chimera.model_panel.tool import model_panel mp = model_panel(session, "Model Panel") mp._previous_model()

--Eric

Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab

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On Jan 19, 2024, at 8:37 AM, Oliver Clarke via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu mailto:chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:

Hi all,

I really like the new sequential model display controls in the daily build - thank you so much for implementing these! Would it be possible to add them as a command, e.g. nextmodel and prevmodel?

This way I could add them to my box of buttons, and have them in the main GUI window, without needing to switch over to the model panel.

Cheers Oli

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