[chimera-dev] asynchronous running of Chimera extensions

[Conrad Huang]

Chimera has code for running jobs in the background while keeping the 
GUI active.  Some of this code is still under development and I would 
suggest using the daily build rather than 1.4.1.  Here are the relevant 
modules and an example:

chimera.SubprocessMonitor
   Module for running and monitoring background process
chimera.tasks
   Module for display background tasks in the task manager interface
chimera.printer
   SubprocessMonitor is used in saveImage() to launch background POV-Ray

If you are using a web service rather than running the program on the 
local machine, there are other modules that may be of interest.

Conrad

On 8/12/10 5:57 AM, Marcin Pawlowski wrote:
> Dear Chimera developers.
> Me and of my students are developing  a chimera extension to deal with
> protein structures.
> Unfortunately, the execution of our plunging last at least 5 minutes,
> so during this time the chimera program is hinged.  We would like to
> execute the program in an asynchronous way.
>
> Is it possible?
>
> Please do not hesitate to contact us if you require further
> information about our project.
>
> Best regards,
> Marcin Pawlowski
>
>
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