<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On Sep 15, 2006, at 1:21 PM, Elaine Meng wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Monaco" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Monaco">The programmers among my colleagues may be able to generate Python<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Monaco" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Monaco">scripts that would be much less icky.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>If you know enough of the basics of Python to write a loop, then as Elaine pointed out these color transitions become less onerous. Also, you don't need to know the Python equivalent of every Chimera command you need, since you can:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>from chimera import runCommand</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>to make the runCommand function available and then thereafter use it to execute a string with the command you want, e.g.:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>runCommand("open 1gcn")</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>to open 1gcn.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>--Eric</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> Eric Pettersen</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> UCSF Computer Graphics Lab</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> <A href="mailto:pett@cgl.ucsf.edu">pett@cgl.ucsf.edu</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> <A href="http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu">http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu</A></DIV></DIV><BR></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>