[chimera-dev] Chimera Model Panel Grouping

[Eric Pettersen]

Great!  You’re welcome.

—Eric

> On May 20, 2016, at 11:34 AM, Taylor Gerpheide <tgerp001 at odu.edu> wrote:
> 
> Thank you! That worked perfectly.
> 
> On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 1:40 PM, Eric Pettersen <pett at cgl.ucsf.edu <mailto:pett at cgl.ucsf.edu>> wrote:
> Hi Taylor,
> 	Yes, there is a way to programmatically group things in the model panel.  It’s ModelPanel.groupCmd(items, name=None).  The items can be models and/or groups.  It returns the new group formed.  You should probably provide the ‘name’ argument, since otherwise it’s possible the user would be prompted for the name.  If there’s no particularly obvious name for you to use, you can use ModelPanel.defaultGroupName(items) to generate one.
> 
> —Eric
> 
> 	Eric Pettersen
> 	UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
> 
>> On May 19, 2016, at 5:51 PM, Taylor Gerpheide <tgerp001 at odu.edu <mailto:tgerp001 at odu.edu>> wrote:
>> 
>> I'm working on an extension which needs to be able to group certain open models like the model panel does. Is there a way to utilize the group function in the model panel from an extension in python?
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> Taylor
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