Changes between Version 18 and Version 19 of Needed Command Functionality

Timestamp:

May 5, 2015, 3:28:43 PM (10 years ago)

Author:

Elaine Meng

Comment:

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Needed Command Functionality

@@ -13 +13 @@
 * '''repr''', '''ribrepr''', '''ribscale''', '''surfrepr''' (suggest consolidating into a new '''style''' command, generalizing ribbon to cartoon as per [http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/meng/chi2/ribbons.html ribbons writeup], and including pseudobonds)
 * '''color''' (suggest consolidating with '''rainbow''' but leaving color-by-attr and color-by-scalar-field as separate commands)
-* '''volume''' (redundancy with show/hide/color etc. OK with me, but should review structure and keywords vs. the negotiable [http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/meng/chi2/command-structure.html command guidelines])
+* '''volume''' (redundancy with show/hide/color etc. OK with me, but should review structure and keywords ''vs.'' the negotiable [http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/meng/chi2/command-structure.html command guidelines])
 * some way to adjust subdivision/smoothness; any global setting could be covered by '''set''' (see below) and any attribute by '''setattr''', but there could also be options in '''surface''', '''volume''', '''cartoon''' and/or a top-level '''quality''' command
 
@@ -32 +32 @@
 == December release ==
 
-Initial versions (not necessarily final/full implementations) of:
+The following functionality is listed for the December release, but not necessarily as commands:
 * '''transparency''' (similar to '''color)
 * '''freeze''' or something like that to control model activation for motion (in Chimera1, '''freeze''' is something different)
 * '''clip''', '''section''', '''thickness''', '''sop cap''' (suggest combining into single command to control global clipping, say '''clip''' or '''gclip''')
 * '''mclip''' per-model clipping
-* '''findhbond'''
-* '''distance'''
+* '''distance''' pseudobonds that could be intermodel
 * '''set''' global settings: single-layer transparency
 
@@ -44 +43 @@
 * more built-in specs like protein, nucleic acid, element symbols, ''.etc.''
 
+== Highly desirable ==
+
+Again listed but not necessarily as commands:
+* '''findhbond'''
+* '''rangecolor''' or logical equivalent for color-by-attr
+* '''scolor''' or logical equivalent for color-by-scalar (radial, volume value, ''etc.'')
+* '''set''' global settings: multiple-layer transparency
+
+
 == Random thoughts ==
 * Hmm, I don't recall any discussion of motion-scripting or other frame-argument commands (see [http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/movies.html#moviecommands Chimera1 movie-related commands])