[Chimera-users] Fwd: Make command-line text bigger

[Tom Goddard]

Lothar uses the Chimera REST server to type Chimera commands in a web browser in the message below.

   Tom

> Begin forwarded message:
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> From: "Esser, Lothar (NIH/NCI) [E]" 
> Subject: RE: Make command-line text bigger
> Date: April 29, 2020 at 10:32:30 AM PDT
> To: Tom Goddard <goddard at sonic.net>
> 
>  
> Hi, 
>  First off, thanks for the alpha version. Transparency now works as expected – tested it on linux and windows 10.
> The commandline console in windows may not be the type of unix terminal that allows a program to get standard in from.
> However, I cobbled a simple html page with a big input line together and use chimera as REST server. That works well and I get the font as large as I need it thanks (in part) to the browser’s cntrl+/- functions.
>  
> Thank you so much. 
> Have a great day. 
> Lothar
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>  
> From: Tom Goddard 
> Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2020 8:41 PM
> To: Esser, Lothar (NIH/NCI) [E] 
> Cc: chimera-users at cgl.ucsf.edu BB <chimera-users at cgl.ucsf.edu>
> Subject: Make command-line text bigger
>  
> Hi Lothar,
>  
>   I don't know what problem you are encountering using ReadStdin on Windows.  It may have something to do with Windows not allowing stdin/stdout for GUI apps.  On Mac it seems to work, I include a little test of it below. But it looks like a horrible solution for your problem of small command-line text since it spews tons of output from the commands.
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>   I don't know of a way to increase the Chimera command-line text size.
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>   I often give presentations with ChimeraX (and in the past Chimera) where I want people to read the command-line text.  But I also want them to be able to read the menu entries, the buttons I click, everything.  And all those text items are about the same size.  So what I do is make all the text bigger.  I do this by simply lowering the display resolution.  Maybe there is a better way on Windows, does Windows system settings allow you to increase all font sizes?
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>   Of course when you make text twice as big the user interface crowds out the graphics.  But there is no way to have everything.
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>               Tom
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> goddard$ ~/bin/chimera
> open 1a0m
> CMD open 1a0m
> #0, chain A: α-conotoxin [TYR15]-epi
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> #0, chain B: α-conotoxin [TYR15]-epi
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> 1a0m opened
>  
> END
> turn y 10 10
> CMD turn y 10 10
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> END
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> On Apr 28, 2020, at 5:24 PM, Esser, Lothar (NIH/NCI) [E] wrote:
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> 
> Hi, 
> 
> This is great. Thanks. Can I ask you one quick question ?
> I developed a presentation of chimera features on my Linux computer but have to use a Window10 laptop for a webex session. While I was able (with some effort) to run chimera from the Command Prompt Console, I cannot get the Tools->Utilities->ReadStdin to work. Is this expected ? Is there a workaround? The reason for that is that I want to show the commands in large fonts for people to read. The usual Chimera Command line has a very small font.... can that be configured to use a large font ?
> 
> Thanks, 
> Lothar 
> 
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