[chimera-dev] tangent wave

[Tom Goddard]

Hi Matt,

  If you run “chimera —send somecode.py” from a shell it will try to use a socket to send the Python file to an already running Chimera.  Writing code to establish your own socket connection will be a major pain.  It has to be integrated into the Tk event loop.

  You’d probably be better off sending Chimera an http request using the Chimera RESTServer capability described here

	http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/restserver/restserver.html

  An older mechanism of talking to Chimera by sending commands to it standard input (stdin), but this requires starting Chimera with another process piping the commands to Chimera.

	http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/readstdin/readstdin.html

  I recommend trying RESTServer.

    Tom



On Mar 26, 2014, at 2:37 AM, Dougherty, Matthew T wrote:

> Hi, 
> 
> I just purchased a Tangent Wave that I plan to interface into chimera.
> 
> The best design is to use sockets.  Is there any precedence for using sockets in chimera?
> 
> 
> Matthew Dougherty
> National Center for Macromolecular Imaging
> Baylor College of Medicine
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