[chimera-dev] asynchronous running of Chimera extensions

[Marcin Pawlowski]

Great. Thanks a lot.

We using both of them 1) using a web service and 2)  running the  
program on the local machine.



Quoting Conrad Huang <conrad at cgl.ucsf.edu>:

> 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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