[Chimera-users] save image with --nogui

[Mark Moll]

Never mind. I found out that I should use the Linux 64-bit Off-screen  
OpenGL build.

On Mar 3, 2009, at 10:12 AM, Mark Moll wrote:

> I'd like to load some pdb files, change the view/colors/ 
> representation/etc., and save the resulting view as an image. If  
> possible, I'd like to do this in the background without the GUI.  
> This doesn't seem to work. The latest daily build gives the errors  
> below when using this simple script:
>
> import Midas
> Midas.copy(file='test.png', format='PNG', width=600, height=400)
>
> Should I be using a different command?
>
> > /Applications/Chimera.app/Contents/MacOS/chimera --nogui foo.pdb   
> test.py
> Opening foo.pdb...
> Executing test.py...Rendering high resolution image...
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/Applications/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/share/ 
> __main__.py", line 65, in <module>
>    value = chimeraInit.init(sys.argv)
>  File "/var/tmp/chimeraBuild_AGL/build/install/Chimera.app/Contents/ 
> Resources/share/chimeraInit.py", line 420, in init
>    chimera.openModels.open(a, prefixableType=1)
>  File "/var/tmp/chimeraBuild_AGL/build/install/Chimera.app/Contents/ 
> Resources/share/chimera/__init__.py", line 1368, in open
>  File "/var/tmp/chimeraBuild_AGL/build/install/Chimera.app/Contents/ 
> Resources/share/chimera/__init__.py", line 802, in _openPython
>  File "test.py", line 10, in <module>
>    Midas.copy(file='test.png', format='PNG', width=600, height=400)
>  File "/var/tmp/chimeraBuild_AGL/build/install/Chimera.app/Contents/ 
> Resources/share/Midas/__init__.py", line 1049, in copy
>  File "/var/tmp/chimeraBuild_AGL/build/install/Chimera.app/Contents/ 
> Resources/share/chimera/printer.py", line 1176, in saveImage
> AttributeError: '_chimera.NoGuiViewer' object has no attribute  
> 'pilImages'
> Error while processing test.py:
> AttributeError: '_chimera.NoGuiViewer' object has no attribute  
> 'pilImages'
> (see reply log for Python traceback info)
>
> -- 
> Mark
>
>
>

-- 
Mark