Opened 9 years ago

Closed 9 years ago

#472 closed defect (fixed)

ChimeraX "open" command format-specification issues

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

Description

(A) how to specify mmtf is inconsistent from the other fetch formats. The prefix should only be used for the database, which is “pdb” and the format should be “mmtf”, e.g. “open 1zik from pdb format mmtf” or “open pdb:1zik format mmtf"

(B) some of the "short name” strings (again, as shown in the Log using “open formats”) are suboptimal. Recommended changes:
stereolithography -> stl
ses -> session
vtk polydata -> vtk
(yeah, one can truncate, but some people will not catch that point and then have trouble because there is a space requiring surrounding quotes)

Change History (1)

comment:1 by Greg Couch, 9 years ago

Resolution: → fixed
Status: new → closed

Part A was fixed by getting the fetch code to use the data format's nicknames (settled on using nickname instead of short_name or alternates).

Part B was fixed by updating the bundle metadata, except for session which was updated in the core.

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