[Chimera-users] Getting measure distance value

[Tom Goddard]

Hi Alicja,

  runCommand() invokes typed user commands and does not return values and unfortunately the measure distance code in

	chimera/share/Measure/measure.py

(the distance() and report_distance() functions) are not well written for calling directly from Python.  Your best approach would be to copy the distance() and report_distance() functions from measure.py and modify them to actually return the distance values you want.

	Tom


> On Aug 22, 2018, at 7:40 AM, al.kupczyk <al.kupczyk at tlen.pl> wrote:
> 
> Hi, 
> I'm struggling with getting a value from runCommand in Chimera. I need to measure distance between an atom and a density map and keep it in a variable, so I'm trying to get a value from "measure distance" command in Python, but unfortunately with no results. Is there any way to somehow get it into a variable? 
> Yours sincerely,
> Alicja
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