Ian Tickle wrote:
Quick question: is there an environment variable in WinCoot which
points to the directory where 'Extensions->Modelling->Monomer from
dictionary' gets its files? This is the '%COOT_PREFIX%/examples'
directory by default. I couldn't see anything relevant in the
documentation (e.g. section 1.5 'Environment variables').
If I start runwincoot.bat from a link I can specify a 'Start in'
directory in Properties to be anywhere I like, but I'd like to do the
same from inside runwincoot.bat. This will save me having to copy my
private collection of monomer dictionaries every time a new version of
Coot comes along.
I had to look up what this function actually does :)
OK, so it presumes that you have read in a cif file that contains
coordinates typically (a fragment of) the Chemical Component Library.
That's why there is no dictionary, because the data come from your file.
So much I guess you know.
Perhaps I am misunderstanding you, but it seems that you suggest that if
you put cif files COOT_PREFIX/examples and use
Extensions->Modelling->Monomer from dictionary...
then coot will automatically load files from that directory? That is
suprising/cool/undocumented.
I don't know about COOT_PREFIX/examples (perhaps that is Bernhard's
addition). Thus, I don't understand the need for copying cif files. If
I had a directory with a personal collection of cifs, I'd use a soft
link or a ccp4i project.
Paul.
