= ChimeraX Developer Meeting =

Attendance: Zach, Greg, Piet, Tom, Eric

February 10, 2025

= Agenda =

* ViewDockX port to Qt
* Qt update to 6.8.2 hoping it fixes Mac multiple display crashes
* Work in progress reports
* Make Chimera end-of-life bug report and registration changes.
* Back up the Chimera build machine to a solid state drive, Windows 7.

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= Discussion =

* Handling invalid input parameters
  - Eric looking for a good way to tell the user about invalid input parameters in a GUI panel after they press OK.
  - Raising user error shows dialog that raises main window and floating input panel ends up behind main window.
  - Discussed instead showing QErrorDialog instead of user error to avoid raising main window.

* Qt update
  - Updated from Qt 6.7 to 6.8.2 in the nightly build.
  - Hoping this fixes mac multiple display crashes.

* Nightly builds failing
  - Zach is fixing nightly builds that failed over the weekend.

* Chimera end-of-life changes.
  - Might stop requesting annual registrations.
  - Also stop showing bug report dialog.
  - Eric currently closes lots of Chimera bugs with wont-fix since they are Tk problems and we won't update Tk.

* ViewDockX
  - Piet asked how manager/provider callbacks work for use in new ViewDockX implementation.
  - Eric explained system and why to use it.
  - Formats for docking can be registered as providers using the ViewDockX manager.

* Acer SpatialLabs 3D display
  - Discussed how lenticular stereo on Acer 3D display might work and whether it would reduce 4K pixel resolution to half the number of pixels per eye.

* Boltz-1 on Mac
  - Tom ran Boltz on Mac with decent speed, on Mac Studio 2 minutes, 1 minute on minsky nvidia 4090, and 3 minutes MacBook Pro, for 600 amino acid nipah protein and drug.
  - Discussed how ChimeraX could install Boltz on laptop for local structure predictions.

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