Re: [PyMOL] Powermate dial with Pymol on OS X
A great many thanks for this -- I went out to the local Apple store and purchased a Powermate specifically for this - and it's awesome! Now I just need to work on programming it to interface with NMRView ... Doug On May 6, 2004, at 4:50 PM, William Scott wrote: Thanks, Ezequiel! That is exactly what I needed. I guess I need to RTFM some more... So for anyone else who might be interested, here is how to get the Powermate dial to play nice with Pymol (I did this on OS X but I assume it would be very similar on Windows). http://chemistry.ucsc.edu/~wgscott/xtal/powermate_pymol_osx.html Bill
Re: [PyMOL] Powermate dial with Pymol on OS X
Nat, The short answer to your question is yes. I have developed a small python driver and an extension to pymol that allows you to use any USB input device as a 3D controller. It works with any USB device that generates events on /dev/input/event* I have also a torsion function that you can use to change dihedrals interactively on any amino acid using your altrnate 3D input device. In my opinion the best input device for this is a trackball with many buttons (Kensington Expert Mouse Pro Trackball). This model has a scroll wheel that you can configure to change rotamers of the currently Pk1 selection if you scroll it while keeping the scroll wheel pressed. Check my webpage for details: http://atb.slac.stanford.edu/~zac/pymol/ Cheers, Zac On Thu, 6 May 2004, Nat Echols wrote: | | I'm very curious about this dial all of a sudden - I just started doing | refinements, and I'd love to use my laptop as much as possible instead of | our slow old SGIs. Has anyone used it on Linux? How's it work with O? | Could it theoretically be programmed to, say, flip through rotamer | libraries or tweak torsion angles in PyMOL, with some additions to the | Python layer? $40 isn't a lot of it's a decent partial replacement for | SGI dial boxes. | | thanks, | Nat | | | | --- | This SF.Net email is sponsored by Sleepycat Software | Learn developer strategies Cisco, Motorola, Ericsson Lucent use to deliver | higher performing products faster, at low TCO. | http://www.sleepycat.com/telcomwpreg.php?From=osdnemail3 | ___ | PyMOL-users mailing list | PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net | https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users | Ezequiel Panepucci, Ph.D. - Laboratory of Prof. Axel Brunger HHMI - Stanford University Phone: 650-736-1714 Cell: 650-714-9414
Re: [PyMOL] Powermate dial with Pymol on OS X
Thanks, Ezequiel! That is exactly what I needed. I guess I need to RTFM some more... So for anyone else who might be interested, here is how to get the Powermate dial to play nice with Pymol (I did this on OS X but I assume it would be very similar on Windows). http://chemistry.ucsc.edu/~wgscott/xtal/powermate_pymol_osx.html Bill On May 6, 2004, at 6:06 AM, Panepucci, Ezequiel wrote: Bill, Use the command set_key from PyMOL (API only) one of the examples on 'help set_key' is precicelly what you want. Cheers, Zac
Re: [PyMOL] Powermate dial with Pymol on OS X
This works, but it could ruin my sessions which are very important for us. Warren, is it possible to add the support of powermate into PyMol or MacPyMol? Since it works perfectly with O, I think it could be a very helpful control tool for PyMol too. == Jianghai Zhu Molecular Biology Biochemistry Purdue University == On May 6, 2004, at 3:50 PM, William Scott wrote: Thanks, Ezequiel! That is exactly what I needed. I guess I need to RTFM some more... So for anyone else who might be interested, here is how to get the Powermate dial to play nice with Pymol (I did this on OS X but I assume it would be very similar on Windows). http://chemistry.ucsc.edu/~wgscott/xtal/powermate_pymol_osx.html Bill On May 6, 2004, at 6:06 AM, Panepucci, Ezequiel wrote: Bill, Use the command set_key from PyMOL (API only) one of the examples on 'help set_key' is precicelly what you want. Cheers, Zac --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Sleepycat Software Learn developer strategies Cisco, Motorola, Ericsson Lucent use to deliver higher performing products faster, at low TCO. http://www.sleepycat.com/telcomwpreg.php?From=osdnemail3 ___ PyMOL-users mailing list PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users
Re: [PyMOL] Powermate dial with Pymol on OS X
I'm very curious about this dial all of a sudden - I just started doing refinements, and I'd love to use my laptop as much as possible instead of our slow old SGIs. Has anyone used it on Linux? How's it work with O? Could it theoretically be programmed to, say, flip through rotamer libraries or tweak torsion angles in PyMOL, with some additions to the Python layer? $40 isn't a lot of it's a decent partial replacement for SGI dial boxes. thanks, Nat
