Re: [PyMOL] Adding a new internal GUI to Pymol for Leap motion support

[Thomas H. <tho...@sc...>]

Hi Johan and Casper,

You can create a menu above the mouse mode panel by writing a wizard. There is no API documentation for wizards, so you have to learn from existing wizards as examples.

You can create an external menu or panel with Tkinter and/or Pmw. See for example eMovie as an example for a button panel, or BNI Tools for a multi-level menu.

Cheers,
  Thomas

On 10 Oct 2016, at 11:47, Schneiders J, Johan <j.s...@st...> wrote:

> Dear Pymol community, 
> We are students at the Hanze University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands.
> Together with our teachers, Tsjerk Wassenaar and Jasper Bosman, we are working on integrating
> the leap motion sensor (hand gesture sensor) into Pymol for moving, and altering the display of, molecules in Pymol.
> 
> We want to create a menu within the GUI of Pymol that will be operated by hand gestures (the amount of extended fingers)
> and display what gestures you can make to manipulate the program.
> 
> Is there a built in way to add/create a menu within Pymol? We have looked on the Pymol wiki, tried googling 
> (keywords: 'pymol edit mouse viewing menu', 'Pymol external GUI', 'pymol adding GUI', 'pymol viewing menu', and so on...), 
> read some of the source code and searched the Pymol user mailing list archive,
> but haven't found a suitable solution.
> 
> In short:
> How do we go about adding an internal menu above the 'mouse mode' menu or adding
> an external window that will run alongside Pymol representing a menu, 
> and adding in our own attributes?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Casper Peters and Johan Shcneiders.
> 
> P.S.
> Here are our e-mail addresses for contacting us:
> Casper Peters: c.c...@st...
> Johan Schneiders: j.s...@st...

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Thomas Holder
PyMOL Principal Developer
Schrödinger, Inc.