[chimerax-users] select menu bundle tags

[Elaine Meng]

A related feature is that users can define selectors with the “name” command, and these will be available in the “Select” menu (under User-Defined Selectors) as well as usable in the command line.

<http://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/name.html>

At least for “evaluate-later” targets, the “name” commands to define them could be put in a startup script (see Preferences) so that they are always available.
<http://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/preferences.html#startup>

Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.
UCSF Chimera(X) team
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco

> On Feb 11, 2020, at 1:25 PM, Eric Pettersen <pett at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi Tony,
> 	We have no plans to change from the current custom-initialization method for bundles adding selectors to the Select menu.  Bundles that add to the Select menu may want to do some pretty complicated things that would be difficult to describe as tags in bundle_info.xml.  For instance, the atomic bundle dynamically populates the Select→Chains menu on the fly as the menu is posted.  Though ideally it would be nice to reduce startup overhead by not needing to execute the bundle’s custom-init code at startup, there won’t be that many bundles that add selectors, and the Select menu gets used often enough that the overhead won’t be “wasted” in most cases.
> 
> —Eric
> 
> 	Eric Pettersen
> 	UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
> 
> 
>> On Feb 11, 2020, at 8:31 AM, Anthony James Schaefer <tony.schaefer at uga.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello
>> 
>> Are there any plans to add bundle tags for putting selectors on the select menu?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Tony