[Chimera-users] Can I use wait command over Rest service?

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Mungo,
If I understand correctly, stringing the commands together with semicolons means to only show the result at the end. 

“...display is not redrawn until the last command in a semicolon-separated series has been executed.”
<http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/usageconventions.html>

 I’d expect it to behave more like you want as two separate commands:

display #0:30.A;wait 20
~display #0:30.A

… although perhaps that is more trouble to script.  If this is just for “live” execution (not recording as a movie) the “sleep” command may be an alternative to “wait,” although it may also require using two separate commands.
<http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/sleep.html>

I hope this helps,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                       
UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco

On May 30, 2016, at 9:58 AM, Mungo Carstairs (Staff) <g.m.carstairs at dundee.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to devise a way to highlight locations on a structure in Chimera while mousing over the sequence in Jalview.
> 
> My latest attempt tries to 'flash' the side-chain display at the residue position i.e. 
> - hide then show atoms (if currently displayed e.g. display is in atom mode)
> - or show then hide atoms (if currently not displayed e.g. display is in ribbon mode)
> 
> I'm sending a command like
> display #0:30.A;wait 20;~display #0:30.A
> to the Rest service.
> 
> However while this seems to do what I want when used at the Chimera command line, via the Rest service it ignores the wait command, with the result that the action is too quick to see.
> 
> Any suggestions please for how to get this to work, or a better alternative?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mungo