[chimera-dev] _surface.SurfaceModel

[Tom Goddard]

Hi Randy,

  Yep one more change to SurfaceModel -- methods 
m.set_bloop_bleep(value) became m.bloopBleep = value  and 
m.bloop_bleep() to get a value became m.bloopBleep.  These changes were 
to adhere to the conventions use in other types of Chimera models.

  We recently started a Chimera development wiki

    http://socrates2.cgl.ucsf.edu/trac/chimera/wiki

and under Browse Source you can get to the SurfaceModel C++ header which 
defines all the methods here:

    
http://socrates2.cgl.ucsf.edu/trac/chimera/browser/trunk/contrib/_surface/surfmodel.h

You additionally need to know that our Python interface generator WrapPy 
changes method()/setMethod() pairs into object attributes (as shown 
above for bloopBleep).

  It is a pain to find the attributes of Chimera Python objects coded in 
C++ since they don't show up with dir().  We look at the C++ headers for 
that.  We have not had the time to better document our programming 
interfaces.

    Tom


Randy Heiland wrote:
> And further... how do I then set:
> set_vertex_colors(colors)
> set_two_sided_lighting(False)
>
> Better yet, how do I find out what the new methods are & how to use 
> them? :)
>
> I tried, for example, the following, in vain:
> twoSidedLighting(False)
>
> -Randy
>
> On Feb 11, 2009, at 4:24 PM, Tom Goddard wrote:
>
>> Hi Randy,
>>
>>  Surface groups have been renamed as pieces and underscores have been
>> removed.  So you want
>>
>>    SurfaceModel.addPiece()
>>
>> Sorry for the trouble caused by the renaming.
>>
>>    Tom
>>
>>
>> Randy Heiland wrote:
>>> Hi gang,
>>>
>>> In trying to finish up my plugin port to the daily/Aqua version of  
>>> Chimera, I'm confused over the replacement method for what used to be:
>>>
>>> _surface.Surface_Model.add_group
>>>
>>> I see that dir(_surface) now has SurfaceModel (without the  
>>> underscore), but what's the replacement for add_group?
>>>
>>>>>> dir(_surface.SurfaceModel)
>>> ['__class__', '__delattr__', '__destroyed__', '__dict__', '__doc__',  
>>> '__getattribute__', '__hash__', '__init__', '__new__', '__reduce__',  
>>> '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__setattr__', '__str__',  
>>> 'addAssociatedModel', 'addGeometryChangedCallback', 'addPiece',  
>>> 'associatedModels', 'bbox', 'bsphere', 'callGeometryChangedCallbacks',  
>>> 'clipPlane', 'clipThickness', 'computeBounds', 'count', 'destroy',  
>>> 'display', 'frontPoint', 'id', 'intersects', 'material', 'name',  
>>> 'newPiece', 'openState', 'oslChildren', 'oslIdent', 'oslLevel',  
>>> 'oslParents', 'oslTestAbbr', 'piecesAreSelectable',  
>>> 'removeAssociatedModel', 'removeGeometryChangedCallback',  
>>> 'removePiece', 'selLevel', 'subid', 'surfacePieces', 'useClipPlane',  
>>> 'useClipThickness']
>>>
>>>
>>> -Randy
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