Re: [Jmol-users] Piping commands into Jmol

[Robert H. <ha...@st...>]

no there isn't. But you can interact with Jmol via a socket.


On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 3:30 AM, Paolo Tosco <pao...@un...> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> is there a way to pipe commands into Jmol?
> For instance, PyMOL has a "-p" command line option which allows this. I
> use this feature in Open3DQSAR/Open3DALIGN to visualize molecules and
> update the PyMOL viewport while the program is running: thus, PyMOL acts
> as the graphical front-end of my command line tool, somehow, and the
> program keeps piping commands until it quits.
> Jmol has the "-s -" option, but commands entered on stdin are not
> executed until EOF is met (i.e., until you press CTRL+D).
>
> Is there a way to make Jmol execute commands after each newline, while
> keeping listening on stdin, and quitting when EOF is met, as does PyMOL
> with the "-p" option? I would very much like to implement Jmol as an
> alternative front-end for Open3DQSAR/Open3DALIGN, and this feature would
> enable me to do that very smoothly.
>
> Thanks, best regards
> Paolo
>
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