[Chimera-users] Obtaining the path to a currently loaded model or volume

[Ricardo Avila]

Thank you Eric.

I was able to implement the feature I wanted for PDBs opened from a single file. I think it would be nice to be able to do it for fetched files too, so I would appreciate some help on that. I was also wondering if opened volumes have the same 'openedAs' attribute.

Best,

Ricardo

‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Thursday, April 11, 2019 2:49 PM, Eric Pettersen <pett at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:

> Hi Ricardo,
> Every opened model in Chimera has an ‘openedAs’ attribute which is either None or a 4-tuple.  For models that were directly opened from a single file on the file system (rather than fetched to a file for instance), openedAs will be a tuple whose first component is the full path to that file.  If you need more that that (e.g. fetched files too, which is more complicated), let me know and I can provide those details.
>
> —Eric
>
> Eric Pettersen
> UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
>
>> On Apr 10, 2019, at 12:49 PM, Ricardo Avila <ravila at protonmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to write an extension for a tool that requires PDB files or MRC structures as input. I would like to be able to pass the model or volume that is currently loaded in Chimera to this separate executable, but for this I need to get the file path to the model's object. Is this possible to do from the Python API?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Ricardo Avila
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