Jared,
Thanks for the input. I'll suggest it to my students. Unfortunately,
many don't have Macs, and some are dependent on using our departmental
computer labs (Windows) and are therefore stuck with the educational build.
I wonder if there are plans to update the educational version to allow
backward scene compatibility? Not having that is a real pain for
incentive users wanting to use mol. vis. for instruction purposes
(having to recreate all the scenes!)
Also, it seems strange to have an option to export a pse to an older
version, but not have it actually be compatible with that older version!
--paul
On 09/08/2016 03:10 PM, Sampson, Jared M. wrote:
Hi Paul -
I'm a little late on this thread, but thought I'd add my 2ยข. Probably
the easiest way get around this issue (as you realize) is probably to
save a 1.7.4.5-compatible PSE file. But, for the adventurous, there
is another way:
With a small effort (and the willingness to use the command line),
your students with Macs can replace the older Educational build of
MacPyMOL with a current version of Open Source PyMOL for free using
the command line package manager, Homebrew <http://brew.sh/>. They
just need to open up Terminal.app and type the following 3 commands:
# Install Homebrew (run the command below, which downloads the
installer, and follow the prompts)
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
# Install XQuartz
brew install Caskroom/cask/xquartz
# Install PyMOL
brew install pymol
Pretty much everything homebrew installs goes into `/usr/local/Cellar`
and gets symlinked to `/usr/local/bin`, and shouldn't interfere with
any other standard software. One notable exception is that Homebrew
Cask <https://caskroom.github.io/> items like Xquartz.app typically go
into /Applications, because Cask handles the downloading of apps and
installers and runs installers automatically. Of course, you can just
as easily download XQuartz from the project website
<https://www.xquartz.org/> and install it manually if you prefer.
It may take a few minutes to build PyMOL and its few dependencies. But
that's it! Now to open PyMOL they can open a Terminal window, `cd` to
whatever directory they want to work in, and launch PyMOL by typing
`pymol`. This would not only get them a more up-to-date PyMOL
version, but as an added bonus, a little exposure to a Unix command
line environment.
Hope that helps.
Cheers,
Jared
On Sep 2, 2016, at 4:24 PM, Paul Paukstelis <shocksofmig...@gmail.com
<mailto:shocksofmig...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Are there known session issues with MacPymol? I've saved a session for
my students to look at using my linux incentive linux build and tried
various session compatibility settings (1.6, 1.74, 1.76) but in all
cases the preset scenes I've saved in the session are not loaded when
the session is opened in MacPymol (educational version 1.7.6 I believe).
Thanks,
--paul
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