wiki:Needed Command Functionality

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Needed Command Functionality

Chimera2 command functionality needed for early release(s) based on Early Release Requirements.

This is somewhat high-level; more detailed guidelines and examples are in Chimera2 Command-Structure Thoughts.

Late summer release

  • open (suggest same general syntax as Chimera1, possibly adjusting prefixes)
  • display (maybe replace with show/hide and eliminating our current show)
  • color (suggest including pseudobonds, consolidating with rainbow, but leaving color-by-attr and color-by-field separate)
  • ribbon (suggest replacing with cartoon and including spline and any other whole-chain parameters)
  • surface (see command and category thoughts)
  • repr, ribrepr,ribscale, surfrepr (suggest consolidating into a new style command, adding cartoon cylinder parameters, and including pseudobonds)
  • volume (redundancy with show/hide/color etc. OK with me, but should review structure and keywords vs. the negotiable command guidelines.)

Extremely useful catchalls, suggest retaining as permanent commands even though there will be some redundancy:

  • set global settings: silhouettes, background color, shadows, lighting (if many sub-options, e.g. lighting, judiciously consider making a separate top-level command; also keeping a redundant but longer set command is OK with me)
  • setattr (general set-attributes functionality)

GUI-only, or do we need commands?

  • select (including up/down)
  • save/restore session
  • save image

December release

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