[chimera-dev] IDE

[Eric Pettersen]

There is also this page describing how to get Eclipse to work with  
Chimera:

http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/trac/chimera/wiki/ChimeraEclipse

--Eric

                         Eric Pettersen
                         UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
                         http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu

On Feb 6, 2012, at 9:17 AM, Conrad Huang wrote:

> The main issue with using IDEs with Chimera is that they have to  
> share the same Python interpreter.  Because Idle is a Python-only  
> package, we managed to put a layer on top of Idle so that it runs  
> using the same interpreter as Chimera, thereby giving Idle access to  
> all Chimera code and data.  I am not familiar with Komodo, but it  
> looks to me like it's a separate application, so the same approach  
> will not work.
>
> A possible solution is to run Chimera from within Komodo, but I'm  
> not sure how the event handling code will interact.  Chimera uses Tk  
> for its graphical interface and user input handling; Komodo probably  
> uses something other than Tk and will have its own input handling  
> code.  I don't know what will happen to user input when Chimera is  
> running.  (Tk is also not thread-safe, so running Chimera in a  
> thread will open a different can of worms.)
>
> So I guess my answer is that, unless an IDE is written in Python it  
> is very difficult to use it in conjunction with Chimera the same way  
> we integrated Idle.
>
> Conrad
>
> On 2/4/12 1:03 PM, ELNAZ REZAEI wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Is it possible to use other python IDE (e.g. komodo) with Chimera?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> ELnaz
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