[chimerax-users] Feature request: save cxc

[Zack Gainsforth]

Hi,

I am finding that saving my visualization as a cxc (scripting command) file leads to good reproducibility.  Often, when I save a session (cxs) file, it doesn’t open again later (I think because directory path names change), but if I produce the visualization by coding a cxc file instead, then it hasn’t failed (yet!).

In addition, I want to keep track of actions such as median filters, and filter parameters, pixel scaling, all that jazz.  When I code this into a cxc file, all that info is in the code record.  When I save a session file I often cannot find that information again later (was it a gaussian filter?  median?  What do I write in the paper!?)

I would suggest a feature to save a cxc file or output a journal of all changes for a cxs file so I can see what I did at least for documentation/reproducability later.

Cheers,

Zack