[chimera-dev] Extensions with C code

[Thomas Goddard]

Jerome Nilmeier has some questions about writing C code extensions to Chimera.

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Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 18:42:34 -0800 (PST)
From: Jerome Nilmeier <jnilmeier at yahoo.com>
Subject: rudimentary chimera questions
To: goddard at cgl.ucsf.edu

Hello Tom:
 
I'm not sure exactly who to ask about this...
I am a UCSF grad student, and I'd like to use chimera for my reserach.  I am thinking of trying to interface some c code with chimera, and had just a couple of basic questions:
 
1) how do you access the information about loaded molecules from the idle prompt?  I went through the example, but it doesn't say how to work with molecules that have been loaded using the menu.
 
2) I was trying to use swig to generate a python wrapper...so far without success.  Do you have a recommended (hopefully straightforward) method for interfacing python with c code?
 
Any help you could offer would be most appreciated.
 
Thank you, Jerome

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