Hmm, that’s a good idea, I’ll try it… I don’t think symm shift reference chain takes an atom spec though does it? It doesn’t seem to take any arguments so I assume it just takes the current cursor position - I guess I could use go to atom and user-defined-click as a work around for that. Thanks! On Mar 29, 2014, at 5:31 AM, Paul Emsley <pems...@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> On 28/03/14 15:27, Oliver Clarke wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Is it possible to access from the scripting interface the symmetry info in >> the atom_info_text string displayed when a user clicks on an atom? >> >> I would like to write a little function that creates a new copy of whatever >> symmetry molecule the user has clicked on. This would be useful for quickly >> generating a pdb to make packing figures, or picking a new asymmetric unit, >> etc (at the moment I do this using save symmetry coordinates, but this is a >> little slow when making a lattice of many molecules). >> >> At the moment, active_residue() returns the nearest residue in the original >> molecule, which is probably as it should be, but the symm ops and shifts are >> displayed in the status bar, so coot clearly “knows about” the symmetry >> status of the centered atom… Would it be possible to make these callable >> from a script, e.g. by passing them via user_defined_click()? >> > > Hi Oliver, > > This is not available at the moment (I'd like to add it). > > I wonder if a combination of copying the model and "Symm Shift Reference > Chain Here" would be a work-around. > > Paul.
