Opened 10 years ago

Closed 10 years ago

#223 closed defect (wontfix)

ChimeraX quick start links don't work

Reported by: Elaine Meng Owned by: Greg Couch
Priority: major Milestone:
Component: Input/Output Version:
Keywords: Cc: Tom Goddard, Conrad Huang, Eric Pettersen
Blocked By: Blocking:
Notify when closed: Platform: all
Project: ChimeraX

Description

At least on my Mac, ChimeraX quick start links don't work. Even if I have a ChimeraX started, if I browse to

​http://preview.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/quickstart/index.html

and click the first command link, "open 2bbv", it does not work in Firefox, Safari, or Chrome.

… gives “The address wasn’t understood” in Firefox and “Safari can’t open the specified address” in Safari. The latter let me try to choose an application but when I chose ChimeraX it still didn’t do anything. Chrome didn’t do anything at all.

I think Scooter encountered this in our planning meeting Dec 5 2015 but I didn't remember to re-check until Dec 14.

Change History (1)

comment:1 by Greg Couch, 10 years ago

Resolution: → wontfix
Status: new → closed

Those links only work within ChimeraX, not in a general web browser. Bring up quickstart with the help menu, or with "help quickstart".

This is different from Chimera and greatly simplifies directing ChimeraX via an HTML page. If there is demand, we could add support for .cxhelp (or .cxh) files that would start ChimeraX and show the file in ChimeraX help browser, and then quickstart and the users guide would use that suffix instead of .html.

-- Greg

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