[Chimera-users] save image with --nogui

[Mark Moll]

I'd like to load some pdb files, change the view/colors/representation/ 
etc., and save the resulting view as an image. If possible, I'd like  
to do this in the background without the GUI. This doesn't seem to  
work. The latest daily build gives the errors below when using this  
simple script:

import Midas
Midas.copy(file='test.png', format='PNG', width=600, height=400)

Should I be using a different command?

 > /Applications/Chimera.app/Contents/MacOS/chimera --nogui foo.pdb   
test.py
Opening foo.pdb...
Executing test.py...Rendering high resolution image...
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/Applications/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/share/ 
__main__.py", line 65, in <module>
     value = chimeraInit.init(sys.argv)
   File "/var/tmp/chimeraBuild_AGL/build/install/Chimera.app/Contents/ 
Resources/share/chimeraInit.py", line 420, in init
     chimera.openModels.open(a, prefixableType=1)
   File "/var/tmp/chimeraBuild_AGL/build/install/Chimera.app/Contents/ 
Resources/share/chimera/__init__.py", line 1368, in open
   File "/var/tmp/chimeraBuild_AGL/build/install/Chimera.app/Contents/ 
Resources/share/chimera/__init__.py", line 802, in _openPython
   File "test.py", line 10, in <module>
     Midas.copy(file='test.png', format='PNG', width=600, height=400)
   File "/var/tmp/chimeraBuild_AGL/build/install/Chimera.app/Contents/ 
Resources/share/Midas/__init__.py", line 1049, in copy
   File "/var/tmp/chimeraBuild_AGL/build/install/Chimera.app/Contents/ 
Resources/share/chimera/printer.py", line 1176, in saveImage
AttributeError: '_chimera.NoGuiViewer' object has no attribute  
'pilImages'
Error while processing test.py:
AttributeError: '_chimera.NoGuiViewer' object has no attribute  
'pilImages'
(see reply log for Python traceback info)

-- 
Mark