[chimera-dev] Programmer's reference

[Thomas Goddard]

Hi JD,

   The automatically generated programmer's reference was removed from 
the Chimera distribution because it was large and rarely useful.  When 
it was taken out of the distribution we did not set up a daily automated 
build for a web site reference guide.  I believe that used to come from 
the automatic Chimera distribution builds.  We'll discuss whether we 
should bring this back at this Thursday's developer meeting.

   For development here we use dir() and help() in the IDLE shell as 
described previously
   http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimera-users/2008-February/002354.html

Also we look directly at Python code files which are included with all 
Chimera distributions under the chimera/share directory 
(Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/share on Mac) and we look at the C++ 
header files which are included in distributions under chimera/include. 
  Of course we work all the time on Chimera code so these methods may 
not be ideal for your less frequent programming needs.

   While we ponder this, you can use the Chimera 1.3 programmer's 
reference included with the distribution in

	share/chimera/helpdir/ProgrammersGuide

   Tom


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [chimera-dev] Programmer's reference
From: Thomas Goddard
To: chimera-dev at cgl.ucsf.edu
Date: 7/27/09 1:34 PM

> Hi Tom and All,
> 
> thanks for the answer. I knew the pdf was removed, but not the full 
> reference.
> Though it was complicated sometime to get to the right place, I finally 
> got used to it and it was useful to me.
> 
> Do you think of posting another kind of reference in the future or will 
> you stop to provide any?
> 
> all the best,
> JD
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [chimera-dev] Programmer's refere <goddard at cgl.ucsf.edu>
> To: Jean Didier Marechal
> Date: 7/24/09 10:10 PM
> 
>> Hi JD,
>>
>>   I believe we no longer provide the programmer's reference guide.  It 
>> was automatically generated from source code comments using HappyDoc.  
>> It's quality was so poor we stopped generating it.
>>
>>     Tom
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: [chimera-dev] Programmer's reference
>> From: Jean Didier Pie Marechal
>> To: chimera-dev at cgl.ucsf.edu
>> Date: 7/24/09 2:34 AM
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>> It seems that we have a problem in getting to the programmer's reference. Is there something wrong with the server? 
>>>
>>> All the best,
>>> JD
>>>
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