Hi all,
not sure how many people of you actually use the application, and likely the
subset of people knowing about the Macro menu is even smaller...
And, indeed, I had to check the source code how it works again... and I coded
this :) Then it would be handy if you could make an extra menu item in the
application menu to do run this small script. Enter the macro.
So, here a quick tutorial:
== Writing Macros ==
Say that you have a script you run very often, or repeatedly, for some reason.
The same script every time. Not a long script, just you use it often. E.g.
the script used on the PDB.org website:
select all;spacefill off;wireframe off;cartoon;color cartoon chain;select
ligand;wireframe 40;spacefill 120
Or, in English: show the protein as cartoon and the ligands as full
balls-and-sticks.
Macro's are stored as Java properties files in $HOME/.jmol/macros. The file is
named something.macro. The extension is important, as is the Java property
file format. A Jmol macro has two fields: "Title=" and "Script=". For
example:
Title=PDB view
Script=select all;spacefill off;wireframe off;cartoon;color cartoon
chain;select ligand;wireframe 40;spacefill 120
Give it a try. If you are wondering what $HOME is, then you're likely a
windows user; it is your personal home directory, and is defined on your
system too, as far as I know. Just run Jmol from the command line with 'java
-jar Jmol.jar' and then you should see something come by that looks like:
User macros dir: /home/egonw/.jmol/macros
exists: true
isDirectory: true
Possible macro found: pdb.macro
As you can see, it successfully detected a possible macro. It has the content
given above.
I hope you like it; it's an old and hidden feature of the application.
Egon
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