Re: [Jmol-users] Command line communication with the Jmol application?

[Alexander R. <ale...@we...>]

Hi,

thanks Paul and Bob, you really helped me!

I came up with the following: Use a loop in Jmol to watch a file A for changes and execute another file B when changes in file A occur.


PREV_FILE_REPL_WATCH_ID = -1
FILE_REPL_WATCH_ID = 0

function file_repl(){
    # The file 'watch.txt' needs to contain an
    # assignment of the variable 'FILE_REPL_WATCH_ID'
    # (actually it's only need when a change should occur)
    # The scripts in the files 'watch.txt' and 'script.txt'
    # are seperated to avoid unnecessary parsing
    script 'watch.txt';
    if( FILE_REPL_WATCH_ID != PREV_FILE_REPL_WATCH_ID ){
        print "CHANGED"
        script 'script.txt'
    }else{
        print "NOT changed"
    }
    PREV_FILE_REPL_WATCH_ID = FILE_REPL_WATCH_ID
}

# Use the 'timeout' command to start watching
# timeout "FILE_REPL" -100 "file_repl();"
 

Best
Alex


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> Von: "Robert Hanson" <ha...@st...>
> An: jmo...@li...
> Gesendet: Montag, 14. März 2011 12:52:37
> Betreff: Re: [Jmol-users] Command line communication with the Jmol application?
> there's a TimeOut command now.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 4:44 AM, Rolf Huehne < rh...@fl...
> > wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On 03/12/2011 05:07 PM, Alexander Rose wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > thanks Paul, but that does not describe exactly what I want to do.
> > Let me clarify.
> >
> > I can start Jmol with
> >
> > java -jar Jmol.jar -s scriptFileName
> >
> > and everything in 'scriptFileName' gets executed. However, I want to
> > start Jmol, execute some Jmol script, feed the results into some
> > other program and then execute some more Jmol script based on the
> > output of the other program. When I know all the Jmol script I want
> > to execute before I start Jmol I can just put it into one script
> > file, but I have some Jmol script I want to execute after Jmol has
> > been running for a while. It seems this is currently only possible
> > by manually using the built-in Jmol Script Console but not
> > programmatically via the command line.
> >
> I think it might be possible by using a loop that tries to load a
> second
> script file:
> 
> 1) Run first part
> 2) Write output and load into external program
> 3) Wait until second script file loads successfully
> 4) Run second part
> 5) Write output
> 
> You should slow down the loop somehow to spare resources. I'm not sure
> if there is an actual sleep command but if graphics is enabled you
> might
> use for example a moveto command which allows to set the time for
> execution.
> 
> Regards,
> Rolf
> 
> 
> 
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