[PyMOL] MacPyMol plug-ins

[stephen rouse]

Hi everyone:

A new plug-in architecture has been added to MacPyMol (available in 
versions 1.00 beta 03 and later). This allows plug-ins to be developed 
for MacPyMol using the native Mac development tools (Xcode) and 
frameworks (Cocoa).
I have a couple of these plug-ins working, and so far they have proven 
fairly useful. The first is a commands palette where you can save your 
own pymol commands and execute them with a double-click.
The second gives you a table view of a molecule's PDB string, along 
with the ability to make and save named pymol selections by interacting 
with the contents of the table.

I'm in the process of creating a web page that explains these in more 
detail, and figuring out an installer mechanism (the manual 
installation method is decidedly non-mac-like) so anyone interested can 
give them a try.

In the meantime, if any MacPyMol users have suggestions/requests for 
plug-ins, i'd love to hear them.

-stephen