[Chimera-users] Keyboard shortcuts for DockView?

[James Wagstaff]

That's great Tom - many thanks
James

On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 at 19:58, Tom Goddard <goddard at sonic.net> wrote:

> Hi James,
>
>   Nice.  I delved a bit deeper and added the Python magic to advance to
> the next compound with a shortcut or go to the previous one.  With that
> addition maybe you want to make a separate shortcut to refresh the list
> (eliminating deleted and purged) and have the mark as purged or deleted
> just mark them.  That would give the user more control.  Maybe marking
> shortcuts should also advance automatically to the next compound.  Whatever
> you find most useful.
>
>   You are welcome and encouraged to put any of this code on the web for
> the benefit of others.
>
> Tom
>
>
> On Mar 27, 2020, at 7:02 AM, James Wagstaff <wagstaff.james at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Thanks Tom,
> Very helpful - I think(?) I now have it working somewhat usefully by
> changing a couple of lines (see attached).
> The accelerators now mimic clicking the ViewDock radio buttons, but with
> focus remaining on main window. So, if you start with all compounds
> "Deleted", and are only showing "Deleted" in the table, then use the
> accelerators to change selected compound status to either "Viable" or
> "Purged" the selected compound disappears and you move to the next compound
> in the table. I couldn't quickly see a way to create a function for
> directly moving to the next molecule (which would be preferable).
> Best,
> James
>
>
> On Thu, 26 Mar 2020 at 18:49, Tom Goddard <goddard at sonic.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi James,
>>
>>   There are keyboard shortcuts in Chimera but they only work when the
>> main window has the focus.  So if you wanted to press the down arrow key to
>> go to the next compound in View Dock and then press a shortcut key to purge
>> it won't work nicely because the View Dock window has to have the focus to
>> get the down arrow key, and the main window needs the focus to get the
>> shortcut key.  Probably a different shortcut key could be assigned to go to
>> the next compound but I didn't see how to do it.
>>
>>   Anyways I used the Chimera Accelerators (menu Tools / General /
>> Keyboard Shortcuts)
>>
>>
>> https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/current/docs/ContributedSoftware/accelerators/accelerators.html#adding
>>
>> to add purge (cp), delete (cd), and viable (cv) shortcuts before I found
>> out it won't work well so here.  It needed some magic Python code and I
>> attach it here in case you want to pursue it further.
>>
>>   Maybe the shortcuts could be done in the newer ChimeraX with ViewDockX
>> -- it allows assigning function keys.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
>> On Mar 26, 2020, at 10:39 AM, James Wagstaff <wagstaff.james at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all
>> I am using the DockView extensions to inspect outputs of a virtual
>> screen, and would like to use a keyboard shortcut to (re)assign the state
>> of the currently selected compound. I am not familiar with the inner
>> workings of Chimera so cannot easily see how to do this myself - I am
>> hoping someone else has implemented this!
>> Best
>> James
>>
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