Attendees

Elaine, Eric, Greg, TomG, Scooter, TomF, Conrad

Agenda

• Show and tell at June 1 group meeting
• ctypes
• Commands
  • Surface commands
  • Keyword documentation
• Enable multisampling for <110 DPI displays [Greg]
• UI testing [Scooter]
• Progress updates [All]

Discussion

• ctypes
  • Lets you call C functions in dynamic libraries from Python
  • Need both C- and Python-level wrappers
  • Alternatives: cffi, wrappy
• Surface commands
  • December release will not support multiple surfaces for the same set of atoms.
  • December release will not support undisplay/display of different patches in different surfaces for the same model.
  • Still need to discuss whether unsurface (~surface) will close surface models.
• Keyword documentation
  • Command keywords will be documented in camelCase.
  • Commands will be single words or Unix-command-style names.
• Enable multisampling for <110 DPI displays [Greg]
  • For December release, multisampling should be independent of DPI
  • Multisampling should default off because it has such catastrophic consequences when it fails
  • Include a "compatibility" program that gets run the first time Chimera is run so that we can tell users early if they have bad graphics or drivers
• Meeting adjourned
• UI testing
• Progress updates

Action Items

• Eric and TomG will discuss wrapping options.