<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Though one nice thing in Idle is that you can look the attributes/methods of a class (those defined in the C++ layer at least) with the help() function, e.g. "help(chimera.Atom)". I am working on making the output of help() for the most commonly used classes available on the Chimera web site (so that you don't have to start Chimera to get it) and will probably have that done in a week or so.<div><br></div><div>--Eric</div><div><br></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "> Eric Pettersen</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "> UCSF Computer Graphics Lab</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "> <a href="http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu">http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu</a></font></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></div><div><div>On Jul 10, 2012, at 9:11 AM, Conrad Huang wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Well, there is Idle :-) The menu item "Tools -> General Controls -> IDLE" will bring up an Idle window.<br><br>I usually use Idle for testing out snippets of code but prefer to edit scripts outside of Chimera. Keeping the "Open File" dialog up by checking the "Keep dialog up after Open" box (above the Close button) helps a lot. The file you last opened remains selected, so you can repeatedly edit your script and hit the Open button to reload it. All a matter of preference...<br><br>Conrad<br><br>On 7/10/12 7:18 AM, Mario Dejung wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Hi all,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">is there an easy way to test and develop programs within Chimera? I<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">always write python scripts and open these in Chimera… Would be much<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">easier to have something like idle or similar to develop scripts and<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">test them.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Or is there a better way I did not found? ><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Looking forward to any suggestions.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Kind regards<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Mario<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Chimera-users mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu">Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users">http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br>_______________________________________________<br>Chimera-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu">Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu</a><br>http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users<br><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div><br><br></body></html>