Nice idea - the rotational code itself would be fairly easy to implement, I think - then it would just be a matter of capturing mouse events and dispatching them to *this* rotation routine instead of the standard one (with a switch to toggle this mode on/off).
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 09:55, Jules Jacobsen wrote: > Wouldn't an easier way to do this be to have a command whereby you tell > pymol to rotate/translate all seperate molecules relative to their own > centres rather than the group or last loaded molecule centre as it does > currently? That way you only need one pymol open and wouldn't need to have > a master/slave setup. > > Jules > > On 13 Feb 2003, Gareth Stockwell wrote: > > > > > Is there any way to have more than one PyMOL session respond to the same > > user input? What I would like to do is the following: > > > > Have several PyMOL windows open side-by-side, each containing a > > different molecule. Then, when I click and drag in any of these windows > > (to effect a rotation/translation), ALL of them undergo the same > > transformation. The reason I want to do this is to compare the > > structures of several related proteins, which have been superimposed and > > are therefore in the same coordinate frame. At the moment, the only way > > I can do this is by loading them all into the same PyMOL session, > > rotating the view, then toggling each object on/off using the menu at > > the right-hand side, but this is both fiddly and does not permit easy > > comparison of many structures. > > > > So, Warren, would it be very complicated to establish some kind of IPC > > commumication between PyMOL sessions, where one was designated the > > 'master', and all commands executed on that session were piped to each > > of its 'slaves'? > > > > Gareth > > > > -- > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Gareth Stockwell > > EMBL - European Bioinformatics Institute > > Wellcome Trust Genome Campus > > Hinxton > > Cambridge CB10 1SD > > gar...@ebi.ac.uk > > Tel (+44) 01223 492548 > > http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~gareth > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > > Welcome to geek heaven. > > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > > _______________________________________________ > > PyMOL-users mailing list > > PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users > > > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gareth Stockwell EMBL - European Bioinformatics Institute Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Hinxton Cambridge CB10 1SD gar...@ebi.ac.uk Tel (+44) 01223 492548 http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~gareth
