[Chimera-users] copy cmd in nogui script

[Eric Pettersen]

With POVray in the latest snapshot, you can now use the "raytrace"  
keyword of the copy command to get a ray-traced image in nogui mode.

--Eric

                         Eric Pettersen
                         UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
                         pett at cgl.ucsf.edu
                         http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu


On Feb 9, 2007, at 8:03 AM, Elaine Meng wrote:

> Hi Randy,
> It is my understanding that the GUI is used to render the image, thus
> it is not possible to save images when in nogui mode.  (Others, please
> correct me if I've gotten this wrong!)
> Best,
> Elaine
> -----
> Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                          meng at cgl.ucsf.edu
> UCSF Computer Graphics Lab and Babbitt Lab
> Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
> University of California, San Francisco
>                       http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/meng/index.html
>
>
> On Feb 9, 2007, at 7:46 AM, Randy Heiland wrote:
>
>> What cmd should I invoke in a --nogui script to copy the rendered  
>> image
>> to a file?
>>
>>> From the interactive viewer cmd line, I can successfully execute  
>>> 'copy
>> file foo.png png'; however, when trying to execute the following:
>>
>> % chimera --nogui cmd:dostuff
>> where 'dostuff' is:
>> open 1yc4
>> color byelement #0
>> copy file foo.png png
>>
>> I get:
>> Fetching 1yc4 from web site www.rcsb.org
>> Done fetching 1yc4; verifying...
>> Opening 1yc4...
>> 1 model opened
>> Opened 1yc4 containing 1 model, 1890 atoms, and 427 residues
>> Rendering high resolution image...Error while processing cmd:dostuff:
>> AttributeError: '_chimera.NoGuiViewer' object has no attribute
>> 'pilImages'
>> (see reply log for Python traceback info)
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/home/heiland/chimera/build/share/__main__.py", line 59, in ?
>>     value = chimeraInit.init(sys.argv)
>>   File "CHIMERA/share/chimeraInit.py", line 298, in init
>>     prefixableType=1)
>>   File "CHIMERA/share/chimera/__init__.py", line 1217, in open
>>   File "CHIMERA/share/Midas/ChimeraExtension.py", line 28, in func
>>     #        lswdir = os.path.split(thisdir)[0]
>>   File "CHIMERA/share/Midas/midas_text.py", line 91, in
>> processCommandFile
>>   File "CHIMERA/share/Midas/midas_text.py", line 60, in makeCommand
>>   File "CHIMERA/share/Midas/midas_text.py", line 542, in doCopy
>>   File "<string>", line 1, in ?
>>   File "CHIMERA/share/Midas/__init__.py", line 795, in copy
>>   File "CHIMERA/share/chimera/printer.py", line 705, in saveImage
>> AttributeError: '_chimera.NoGuiViewer' object has no attribute
>> 'pilImages'
>>
>>
>> thanks, Randy
>>
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