Dear Bob, I have a script that does arbitrary things. I would like to capture a gif frame whenever I change the scene (one frame per change), and playback the resulting multi-gif with interframe delays that I specify.
For example, I'd like to show one chain of a multi-chain protein assembly, then add the second chain, then the third, then the fourth, then blank Jmol for a specified delay, and loop back. As far as I can tell the 'capture' command is not designed to 'capture' one frame of a multi-gif on command. I do not find a way to do this: change scene capture one frame change scene capture one frame change scene capture one frame assemble 3 frames into multi-gif file Rather, it starts capturing for a specified time, or until you stop it, and then you can do stuff. But this does not permit control of playback timing between frames, or the number or frames captured per scene. For example: load =1d66 spacefill color chain # 4 chains A, B, D, E restrict :a capture "test.gif" loop # this opens the multi-gif file and starts capturing delay 1.0 select :b spacefill delay 1.0 select :d spacefill delay 1.0 select :e spacefill delay 1.0 restrict none # blank Jmol delay 3.0 capture end The above script produces a gif in which each chain appears after a delay, in sequence, as desired. But it has multiple frames per scene (chain), and I cannot control the playback timing. The lengths of the delays seem to have no effect on the gif file produced. What I would like is more like this hypothetical script load =1d66 spacefill color chain # 4 chains A, B, D, E set gifDelay 0.5 # seconds AFTER next frame in multi-gif playback restrict :a capture oneFrame "test.gif" loop # this opens the multi-gif file # and captures a single frame. It does NOT continue to capture additional frames. select :b spacefill capture oneFrame # adding a second frame to the multi-gif file select :d spacefill capture oneFrame # adding 3rd frame select :e spacefill capture oneFrame # adding 4th frame restrict none # blank Jmol set gifDelay 3.0 capture oneFrame # blank frame plays for 3 seconds capture end # closes multi-gif file, looping back to first frame ---------------- What do you think? Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list Jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
