[Chimera-users] register file extension .xmp for volume data

[Tom Goddard]

Dieter tells me the Xmipp extension for Spider map files is ".vol" not 
".xmp", so I've made Chimera recognized ".vol" and not ".xmp" as Spider 
format.

     Tom


Tom Goddard wrote:
> Hi Dieter,
>
>     I added the ".xmp" file suffix for Spider to Chimera.  Will be in
> tonight's daily builds.  If you want to change your current Chimera to
> have this you can edit file
>
>       chimera/share/VolumeData/fileformats.py
>
> changing line
>
>     ('SPIDER volume data', 'spider', ['spider'], ['spi'], False),
>
> to
>
>     ('SPIDER volume data', 'spider', ['spider'], ['spi','xmp'], False),
>
>     In Chimera 1.5 when opening a file type with an unrecognized suffix
> the dialog that appears to let you choose the file type has a
> check-button "Use this type for remainder of unknown selected files".
> This should allow you to open many files of the same type without having
> to choose the file type for each one.
>
>       Tom
>
>
>
> Dieter Blaas wrote:
>> Hi,
>>       I routinely visualize spider format volume data that are output from
>> Xmipp with the extension .xmp. This extension is not registered in
>> Chimera and I have to scroll through the formats page each time to
>> select 'spider volume data' or open the file with 'chimera
>> spider:xxx.xmp'. Is there a way to make Chimera recognize this extension
>> as 'spider format' automatically? There was an older Windows version
>> that allowed to tell Chimera that all following data were of the same
>> format as the first one but I have not seen this in any of the recent
>> Linux versions.
>> Thanks for hints, D.
>>
>> -
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Dieter Blaas,
>> Max F. Perutz Laboratories
>> Medical University of Vienna,
>> Inst. Med. Biochem., Vienna Biocenter (VBC),
>> Dr. Bohr Gasse 9/3,
>> A-1030 Vienna, Austria,
>> Tel: 0043 1 4277 61630,
>> Fax: 0043 1 4277 9616,
>> e-mail: dieter.blaas at meduniwien.ac.at
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