<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Apr 21, 2009, at 8:59 PM, <a href="mailto:cdlau@ucsd.edu">cdlau@ucsd.edu</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Dear Madam/Sir,<br>I found this from a response 5 years ago in 2004<br><br><blockquote type="cite"> As it works now, if you wish to send commands to an already running<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Chimera, you cannot specify which instance of Chimera. So it is not<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">possible to communicate with multiple instances of Chimera as you might<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">want to support multiple web sessions. Dan Greenblatt may have ideas<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">for addressing this.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> Tom<br></blockquote><br>I was wondering if this is still the case. I am interested in running<br>multiple instances of Chimera on a Tiled Wall Display and have global<br>control over all the instances. Does anyone have any suggestions or<br>resources for me to look into?</div></blockquote><br></div><div>Hi Chris,</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The quote refers to the situation where a user has started multiple Chimera sessions and then executes a Chimera script from a web page. The script might run in any of the Chimera instances.<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>If _you_ start multiple Chimeras you can absolutely control which one does what as long as the commands aren't coming from a web page. There is a ReadStdin extension that you can use to have each Chimera read commands from standard input (documentation: <a href="http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/current/docs/ContributedSoftware/readstdin/readstdin.html)">http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/current/docs/ContributedSoftware/readstdin/readstdin.html)</a>. It reads Chimera commands but you can use the "open" command to run Python scripts.</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Let me know if this isn't sufficient for your needs.<br></div><div><br></div><div>--Eric</div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> Eric Pettersen</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "> UCSF Computer Graphics Lab</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "> <a href="http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu">http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu</a></font></div></div></div><br><div></div></body></html>