[Chimera-users] Chimera --send on MacOS

[Tom Goddard]

Hi François,

   I suspect your test.com file is not found when you run "chimera 
--send test.com" because the Chimera that is already running was started 
in a different directory then the one test.com is in.  The file is 
opened by the already running chimera and so the path probably has to be 
relative the directory that Chimera was started in.  If you started 
Chimera by clicking an icon in Mac OS then it starts in directory "/".  
So you should specify a full path to "test.com" like 
/Users/stricher/test.com or ~/test.com.

   I think this is weird and unexpected and we should probably fix this 
so that "chimera --send" converts the relative path to an absolute path 
before handing it to the running Chimera.

     Tom


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] Chimera --send on MacOS
From: François Stricher
To: Tom Goddard
Date: 10/4/12 4:36 PM
> Hi Tom,
> you're right the daily build allows again the use of --send. However, here is another problem:
> when I do   "chimera --send test.com", I have this error message "[Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'test.com'"
> François
>
>
> On Oct 4, 2012, at 23:24 , Tom Goddard wrote:
>
>> Hi François,
>>
>>   Yes "chimera --send" is broken in Chimera 1.6 but fixed in the daily builds a few days ago.  Here is a way to fix your Chimera 1.6 if you prefer to continue using the production release
>>
>> To fix "chimera --send" in Chimera 1.6 change line 71 of the following file
>>
>>     chimera/share/send_to_chimera.py
>>
>> in your chimera distribution from
>>
>>   web_file = "chim_webinfo-%s" % username
>>
>> to
>>
>>   web_file = "chimera_webinfo-%s" % username
>>
>> (the "chim_" is now "chimera_").
>>
>>    Tom
>>
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: [Chimera-users] Chimera --send on MacOS
>> From: François Stricher
>> To: chimera-users at cgl.ucsf.edu
>> Date: 10/4/12 5:57 AM
>>> Hi all,
>>> I want to be able to interact with Chimera from another program, sending commands and all. I tried the chimera --send my_file.com to test it under MacOS 10.7. Each time I do this, it opens a new instance (instead of reusing the previous one) and doesn't process my_file.com at all. When I open my_file.com from inside chimera, it operates the commands inside it without any problem.
>>> Any idea?
>>> Francois
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