[chimera-dev] Chimera extension threads

[Conrad Huang]

Hi, Tanja.

I think the answer depends on where the bottleneck lies.  If the problem 
is that your plugin data is large and Chimera is just slow to process 
the data set, then there's not a whole lot we can do to speed that up. 
(That's why we're working on ChimeraX.)  If, on the other hand, the 
issue is that the plugin takes some time to send data back, I may be 
able to help.  Do you have some idea of which type of problem you're 
encountering?  Thanks.

Conrad

On 5/16/2016 9:49 AM, Tanja Štular wrote:
> Dear Sir or Madam,
>
> I have been developing an extension for UCSF Chimera. I'm wondering if
> there is any option for background threading for loading object to
> Chimera view? Our plugin allows loading large molecules to Chimera which
> sometimes causes freezing of Chimera and plugin for a little time. I
> know about Subprocess class
> (https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ProgrammersGuide/Examples/Main_RunSubprocess.html)
> but it doesn't seem to work (same goes for python threading).
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Best regards,
> Tanja
>
>
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