​Molecular data issues/decisions - Eric

Skeleton Framework for Development Experimentation - Greg and Conrad

Goals

• Create a framework (for Mac, Linux and Windows) where developers can test their ideas by actually writing some code and seeing what the results look like
• Provide graphics library API
  • support spheres, cylinders and triangles
• Provide UI toolkit API
  • support PySide with QT4
• Provide basic application API
  • file type registration
  • command registration
• Provide simple UI
  • display of 3D graphics with virtual sphere manipulation
  • menu bar with "File -> Open" button
  • command line input

Results

Code, available in ​svn+ssh://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/usr/local/src/svn/chimera2, works on Mac, Linux and Windows. Unfortunately, installation of "foreign" software for each platform is quite different. We are working on a "make" setup similar to what is currently in Chimera so that it will be easier for developers to deploy the code.

Next Sprint

Possibilities:

• Complete deployment setup
• test alternative GUI toolkits: GTK+, WxWindows
• More graphics functionality
  • transparency
  • picking
  • shader management
• Python 3.3
  • skiboken vs. swig vs. wrappy3 vs. cython
• Analysis of web application compatibility
  • WSGI with non-system python?