> If I type "show selected", in RasMol (v2.7.1), the list of the selected > atoms with their respective chains and residues is displayed. > In Chime, the same command only hilights the selected residue in orange > in the visualisation frame. I don't really understand this ... I will try it later
> To get the name of selected resiudes with Chime the command is "show > residue" > To get the numbers of selected atoms, the command is "show atom", and > for the selected chains "show chain" > These commands are Chime specific I tried these out in the Chime Command-Line Example page. They seem straightforward. > With Chime, as these informations are sent to a javascript function, > they can be interpreted to perform some operations such as : > actualisation of a counter, selection of residue (the non covalent bond > finder from Eric Martz, use these informations a lot), selction of a > chain (for example in MolUSc to color RNA in a different color than DNA, > I use the following selection "select nucleic and *.o2*; show chain" and > I use the information from "show chain to select only the RNA) I didn't understand all of that ... but OK >> So the actual format of the output does not need to be RasMol/Chime >> compatible ... correct? > It's a tricky question... > An array is very interesting to get some messages that need to be > preformated. But for some other messages one string is sufficient (the > command executed, the result of "show view"). > It will break compatibility with existing web pages, but in fact pages > which use these informations are not common and will benefit from these > changes. What do you think about receiving these informations as a > fourth argument from the messageCallBack method ? > - 1st : applet name > - 2nd : string > - 3rd : number of the message > - 4th : array if needed > So, when some informations come in an array, the 2nd argument could > "tell it" > (as I was writing this message, I received a message from Miguel > speaking of a fourth argument too) Per one of my other messages ... The other possibility is to have a separate call which one can use to enumerate all of the selected atoms. This may be more efficient than always passing a 4th parameter. Either a call which returned an array of atomIDs, or an iterator which would return them one-by-one ... What do you think of that? >> Is 'show selected residues' an existing RasMol/Chime command or a >> 'new' command? > It's an existing Chime command OK Miguel ------------------------------------------------------- This SF. Net email is sponsored by: GoToMyPC GoToMyPC is the fast, easy and secure way to access your computer from any Web browser or wireless device. Click here to Try it Free! https://www.gotomypc.com/tr/OSDN/AW/Q4_2003/t/g22lp?Target=mm/g22lp.tmpl _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
