Hi Eric, I see. For ease of windows management, I have most of my tools docked. However, resizing the monolithic window often results in changes to the sizes of tool/button panels as ChimeraX maintains their relative proportions. I was wondering if I could put together a set of alias-ed presets that would resize and arrange these elements to match the common viewport sizes I tend to use, e.g. to pair better with different monitor setups, or for ease of returning to a set state having resized away for whatever reason. I've just been tweaking my presets for (old) COOT and was inspired to see if I could do the same with my ChimeraX setup. No worries if no such mechanism exists. I can well appreciate the complexity involved in refactoring. Cheers, Yang On Fri, 3 May 2024 at 00:00, Eric Pettersen <pett@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:

Hi Yang, No, there is no command for setting tool window sizes. What is the use case would be where you would want a command for it? Also, a single tool can have multiple windows open, so I’m not even sure how you would refer to a particular window in a command.

--Eric

Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab

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On May 2, 2024, at 7:47 AM, leeyang+chimerax--- via ChimeraX-users < chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:

Hi,

Not a feature request but a query. Is there currently a way to change tool panel sizes with a command, either in absolute terms or as a fraction of another parameter value?

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Hi Yang, Sorry, we have no direct support for that. You could write your own Python-based preset that looks at session.ui.main_window (which is a QMainWindow <https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qmainwindow.html#addDockWidget> instance), uses findChildren() to get the QDockWidget instances, and resizes them based on their windowTitle attribute. Hacky, but might work. --Eric

On May 2, 2024, at 4:27 PM, leeyang+chimerax--- via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:

Hi Eric,

I see. For ease of windows management, I have most of my tools docked. However, resizing the monolithic window often results in changes to the sizes of tool/button panels as ChimeraX maintains their relative proportions.

I was wondering if I could put together a set of alias-ed presets that would resize and arrange these elements to match the common viewport sizes I tend to use, e.g. to pair better with different monitor setups, or for ease of returning to a set state having resized away for whatever reason. I've just been tweaking my presets for (old) COOT and was inspired to see if I could do the same with my ChimeraX setup.

No worries if no such mechanism exists. I can well appreciate the complexity involved in refactoring.

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