Re: [PyMOL] pipe structure to pymol

[Nat E. <nat...@gm...>]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Simon Becker
<sim...@un...> wrote:
> I would like to visualize the intermediate structures my program
> produces during the computation cycle. Every iteration it generates a
> new structure. Is there a way to display this structure in pymol, using
> e.g. a pipe? Does anyone have experience with this, is there even a
> tutorial or manual entry that I failed to find?

I have quite a bit of experience with this - the quick answer is to
use either XML-RPC, or run a thread monitoring a file to see if it
changes.  There is a built in XML-RPC server that I believe is started
with the "-R" command-line flag, but I ended up coding my own.  (You
can use the Python getattr() function to automatically pull methods
from the various PyMOL APIs, which saves a lot of time coding
individual wrapper functions).  I can send you an example if you're
interested.

-Nat