Changes between Version 81 and Version 82 of Needed Command Functionality

Timestamp:

May 19, 2015, 9:32:38 AM (11 years ago)

Author:

Elaine Meng

Comment:

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Needed Command Functionality

@@ -9 +9 @@
 * '''open''' (suggest same general syntax as Chimera1, possibly adjusting prefixes; covers both local files and web-fetch)
   - for this release: PDB, PDB/mmCIF, density maps, sessions
+* '''close'''
+* '''exit, quit''' or equivalent
 * '''display''', '''modeldisplay''' (suggest replacing with '''show/hide''')
   - this could control pseudobonds indirectly if they are hidden automatically when endpoint atoms are hidden, but we may want to make it act on them directly, or else '''setattr''' (see below) might be the only way
@@ -32 +34 @@
 * '''set''' global settings
   - for this release: silhouettes, background color, depth-cuing amount and color, interactive shadows, lighting (ambient occlusion, ambient-only, N-point)
-  - if many sub-options, e.g. lighting, could make a separate top-level command; also keeping a redundant but longer '''set''' command is OK with me 
+  - if many sub-options, e.g. '''lighting''', could make a separate top-level command; also keeping a redundant but longer '''set''' command is OK with me 
 * '''setattr''' attribute values
 
@@ -102 +104 @@
   - '''sop hideDust''' equivalent (could be separate command, but is this used for anything other than isosurfaces?)
 * '''save''' PDB, volume data format(s), graphics format(s), ''etc.''
-* '''set''' (or other command) global settings: background color gradient, multiple-layer transparency (correctly rendered even for multiple models)
-* '''setattr''' (or other command) attributes: material properties
+* '''set''' (or other command, ''e.g.'' '''background''') global settings: background color gradient, multiple-layer transparency (correctly rendered even for multiple models)
+* '''setattr''' (or other command, ''e.g.'' '''material''') attributes: material properties
 
 Command accoutrements:
@@ -131 +133 @@
  - potentially options of '''clip, mclip'''
  - in Chimera1, certain things are already only wholly selectable (surface pieces, ''etc.''), but if we become able to select subparts/triangles within surfaces, it could also be an option of '''select'''
-* '''set''' (or other command) global settings: background images, lighting contrast, camera modes (orthographic, stereo)
-* '''setattr''' (or other command) attributes: individual shininess (and/or '''set''' global shininess?), other individual material properties, per-model silhouettes (remove silhouettes from global settings?)
+* '''set''' (or other command, ''e.g.'' '''background, lighting, camera''') global settings: background images, lighting contrast, camera modes (orthographic, stereo)
+* '''setattr''' (or other command, ''e.g.'' '''material''') attributes: individual shininess (and/or '''set''' global shininess?), other individual material properties, per-model silhouettes (remove silhouettes from global settings?)
 
 GUI-only, or do we need commands?