[chimera-dev] API change in next release: no more selection.selectionModels()

[Eric Pettersen]

If you based any code off the "Selections" programmer's example, you 
may be using the selection.selectionModels() function to get a list of 
models to restrict selections to.  That function is going away with the 
next release.  You should use the chimera.openModels.list() function 
instead as explained in the revised example now on the Chimera web 
site.  Using the openModels.list() function will work in 1.1951 and 
prior releases as well as our next release which should be out next 
week.

At one point, it had been our intent to allow users to designate a set 
of models to restrict selections to, which was the raison d'etre for 
the selectionModels() function.  The implementation of an interface 
designating such models never materialized and over time the whole 
mechanism just seemed to be unnecessary, so we are dropping the idea 
and the corresponding API baggage.  I apologize for any inconvenience.

Eric Pettersen
UCSF Computer Grpahics Lab
pett at cgl.ucsf.edu