Eran, Both Warren and I are very interested in this; if you are game for it, by all means go for it. I think what you will find is that certain aspects will be easier than others. Warren and I sat down some time ago and compared notes, and we were both quite amazed how differently two people can conceptualize the same thing. So be ready for some frustrations.
The first task Warren and I thought important would be to investigate what are the common capabilities -- not to worry about aspects that only Jmol or only PyMol do -- and then determine how differently they might be implemented. Start simple; be ready to refactor extensively as necessary. Then consider some of the fancier aspects of each program. If you do this, you need to think about whether you want it for the applet or just the standalone application. Looking forward to hearing more about this, Bob Eran Hodis wrote: > Has anyone started to create a pymol to jmol translator? In other > words, a display in pymol could be ported into jmol. > > Jaime Prilusky and I are ready to start on such an initiative and want > to see if anyone has already started or if anyone wants to help. > > Warren Delano: if you're reading this, is it possible to have some > "state" script output from PyMOL? I'm sure you're saving something > like this when you save a session file in PyMOL, but that is in > binary. What I'd like to be able to do is to ask PyMOL what is the > current state and get a response that tells me the current view, the > coloring, and the representations. Barring that, we'll have to just > translate PyMOL scripts to Jmol ones... > > Best, > Eran > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference >Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. >Use priority code J8TL2D2. >http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Jmol-users mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users > > -- Robert M. Hanson Professor of Chemistry St. Olaf College Northfield, MN http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr If nature does not answer first what we want, it is better to take what answer we get. -- Josiah Willard Gibbs, Lecture XXX, Monday, February 5, 1900 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
