[chimera-dev] Getting the selected elements

[Eric Pettersen]

Hi Wolf,
     The particular function you want is 'currentAtoms', like so:

     from chimera.selection import currentAtoms
     atoms = currentAtoms()

currentAtoms() returns a list (which will be empty if nothing is  
selected).  There are various other functions for dealing with the  
current selection, which are shown here: http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/ 
chimera/docs/ProgrammersGuide/Reference/generated/chimera/selection/ 
__init__.html

Also, there is a programming example dealing with selections, though  
it doesn't explicitly answer your question: http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/ 
chimera/docs/ProgrammersGuide/Examples/Main_Selections.html

                         Eric Pettersen
                         UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
                         pett at cgl.ucsf.edu
                         http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu


On Oct 6, 2005, at 7:44 AM, Wolf Cochrane wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've written software and want to use Chimera as vector application  
> for it. As a
> input step I want the user to select a atom on a structure, using  
> his/her mouse
> in the Chimera GUI. I've had a look at the Chimera code and online  
> documentation
> but haven't been able to figure out how to get the selected  
> elements (Existing
> elements) on a structure.
>
> I will appreciate it if you can help me out.
>
> Regards
> Wolf Cochrane
>
> Bioinformatics and computational Biology Unit
> University Pretoria
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