[chimera-dev] Chimera Model Panel Grouping

Taylor Gerpheide tgerp001 at odu.edu
Fri May 20 11:34:06 PDT 2016


Thank you! That worked perfectly.

On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 1:40 PM, Eric Pettersen <pett at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:

> Hi Taylor,
> Yes, there is a way to programmatically group things in the model panel.
> It’s ModelPanel.groupCmd(items, name=None).  The items can be models and/or
> groups.  It returns the new group formed.  You should probably provide the
> ‘name’ argument, since otherwise it’s possible the user would be prompted
> for the name.  If there’s no particularly obvious name for you to use, you
> can use ModelPanel.defaultGroupName(items) to generate one.
>
> —Eric
>
> Eric Pettersen
> UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
>
> On May 19, 2016, at 5:51 PM, Taylor Gerpheide <tgerp001 at odu.edu> wrote:
>
> I'm working on an extension which needs to be able to group certain open
> models like the model panel does. Is there a way to utilize the group
> function in the model panel from an extension in python?
>
> Thank you,
> Taylor
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