Re: [PyMOL] New 16 char length restriction of object names in menu?

[Jason V. <jas...@sc...>]

Hi Carsten,

I'd like to follow up on this.  There is no character limit, but there
is a bug.  PyMOL is inappropriately clipping names in groups if the
internal GUI cuts off the end of the name.  The current workaround for
your sessions is to expand the internal_gui to show the names, and
then save your session.

I'll look into fixing this ASAP.

Cheers,

-- Jason

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Jason Vertrees
<jas...@sc...> wrote:
> Hi Carsten,
>
>> Has the length of the object name entry in the right hand menu been
>> restricted to 16 characters in v1.4.x? Prior to 1.4.x there seemed to have
>> been no limit on the length of the entry.
>
> There is no such limit on the length of names.
>
>> For instance
>> cmd.load(“reallylongmapnamehere”,
>> format=”ccp4”,object=”reallylongmapnamehere”) would truncate the display of
>> the object to “reallylongmapna”. I suppose that would be fine for some
>> applications, but in my case I am distributing sessions, which contain
>> fairly long object names to be self-explanatory, so I am dependent on this
>> feature to work. Could this be reverted back to unlimited or at least
>> implement a setting controlling the length of the entry?
>
> You have a few options.
>
> If you want to hide the state-counter to get a few more characters on
> the line just "set state_counter_mode, 0".  Alternatively, you could
> just increase the internal_gui_width--eg
>
> set internal_gui_width, 300
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- Jason
>
> --
> Jason Vertrees, PhD
> PyMOL Product Manager
> Schrodinger, LLC
>
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Jason Vertrees, PhD
PyMOL Product Manager
Schrodinger, LLC

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