[chimera-dev] modify the menu bar

[Eric Pettersen]

Hi Elisabeth,
	I guess my recommendation is to structure your code like an  
extension, so that Chimera will execute a ChimeraExtension.py file at  
startup that you've written.  Normally, you put code into a  
ChimeraExtension.py file to do all the stuff to get your extension  
into the Tools menu, add a command version, etc.. but the code in that  
file can actually be almost anything.  Just put your code to add your  
top-level menu in there instead of normal extension-adding code.
	Let me know if you need more details.

--Eric

On Jan 21, 2011, at 10:58 AM, Elisabeth Ortega wrote:

> Hi Eric,
>
> I'm testing the two options. Your option works only when I execute   
> ">>chimera mymenu.py" .How can I auto-execute your code when I start  
> Chimera?
>
> Thanks
>
> 2011/1/21 Eric Pettersen <pett at cgl.ucsf.edu>
> Hi Elisabeth,
> 	As Tom says, the code he refers to is really more complex than you  
> need.  Just do this:
>
> from chimera.tkgui import addMenu
> myMenu = addMenu(label="menu name")
>
> to create a top-level menu that you can add items to.  An example of  
> its use in Chimera itself is in the _getAliasMenu() function in  
> Midas/midas_text.py.
>
> --Eric
>
>                         Eric Pettersen
>                         UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
>      &nbsp p;            http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu
>
> On Jan 21, 2011, at 9:20 AM, Tom Goddard wrote:
>
>>  Hi Elisabeth,
>>
>>   There is some code in Chimera that makes a new top-level menu  
>> called
>> Volume that is a copy of the Tools / Volume Data submenu.  That  
>> Volume
>> menu is displayed using menu entry Tools / Volume Data / Volume  
>> Menu on
>> Menubar and if you show it it is remembered in the Chimera  
>> preferences
>> file so it will appear every time you run Chimera.  This is a more
>> complex than you need.  But the main routine that would be useful to
>> study is called create_toplevel_volume_menu() in file
>>
>>     chimera / share / VolumeMenu / __init__.py
>>
>> in your Chimera distribution.  It would be easy to make a similar
>> Ch a toplevel Scripts menu and simply read all
>> the files in one of your directories and made menu entries which  
>> caused
>> the file to be opened in Chimera.  If you need more help with  
>> writing it
>> ask.
>>
>>     Tom
>>
>>
>>> Dear Chimera Dev Team,
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm trying to put other option in the menu bar (File, Select,  
>>> Actions,
>>> ... , myOption, Help) to store my own scripts. I'm doing a deep  
>>> search
>>> on your python and C++ codes but I don't find which is the code  
>>> that I
>>> have to modify.
>>> I know that is easy to store my scripts in the Tools menu, but I
>>> prefer to put my scripts in a new option of the menu bar.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot for taking the time to reply.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Elisabeth Ortega
>>> Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB)
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