Michael, This is definitely going to happen -- having seen how the slider works in pro-animation tools in Cinema4D, I am convinced that the equivalent capability would be extremely useful in PyMOL, not just for MD, but for working with animated movies comprised of multiple scenes.
However, it clashes a bit with the "mdo" movie command paradigm, since that assumes forward sequention actions rather than random access. The "mview" approach has solved that issue with respect to camera and object matrixes (and soon with scenes too), so really, it is just a matter of my finding the development time to make this happen. For reasons of internal performance, my solution will be integrated into the main OpenGL GUI as opposed to being external. However, the ability to randomly jump to a particular movie frame while maintaining movie coherence will be exposed as an API function enabling similar functionality to be developedas a plugin, such as an MD-specific browsing interface. Cheers, Warren -- DeLano Scientific LLC Subscriber Support Services mailto:del...@delsci.info "Not yet a PyMOL Subscriber, but want to support the project? Email sa...@delsci.com to quote your lab, school, or employer. Thank you for sponsoring this open-source endeavor!" -WLD > -----Original Message----- > From: pymol-users-boun...@lists.sourceforge.net > [mailto:pymol-users-boun...@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf > Of Michael Lerner > Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 12:16 PM > To: pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [PyMOL] Slider for movies? > > Hi, > > I'm using PyMOL to look at Amber trajectories. It would be > really useful if I could zoom around the movie with a slider, > like in VMD. > Has anybody seen (or written) a plugin to do such a thing? > > It would also be nice if I could say "each frame is 5ps and > the movie starts at time=500ps" and have the slider display > things accordingly, but I figure that's a little more of a long shot. > > Thank you, > > -michael > > -- > Biophysics Graduate Student > Carlson Lab, University of Michigan > http://www.umich.edu/~mlerner http://lernerclan.net > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join > SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to > share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief > surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge &CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > PyMOL-users mailing list > PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users
