[Pipet Devel] using XML

[Konrad Hinsen]

> My mistake.  I saw the screenshot of MMTK, and I thought that it had its own
> GUI.  Is that VMD or something displaying the molecule?

Right. And I am happy enough with VMD for display, especially for
producing publication-quality images (via POVRay). But I don't see
much hope for interactive manipulation via VMD any time soon, and
for quick visualization jobs it's a bit slow.

<dream>
Ideally there would be a "molecular visualization widget" with all of
VMD's visualization features, using OpenGL for speed. It would be
suitable for inclusion into GUIs (Tk and/or GTK) and provide all the
callback hooks necessary to implement interactive manipulation of
structures.
</dream>

That's for all of you who don't know what to do in their spare time!

> > Which reminds me: perhaps we can steal browser-type code from Grail!
> 
> I thought of that.  Grail is written in Python.  Plus there is a nice HTML
> widget for GNOME.  But again, the tools don't have to look like Web browsers to
> use XML, do they?

No, but for some aspects (e.g. an on-line manual) a traditional browser
is just fine.


Anyway, after all these theoretical discussions, how about something
more concrete: a TULIP wish list. What kinds of operations would
everyone like to see implemented? I must confess that this is still
rather unclear to me.

Konrad.
-- 
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Konrad Hinsen                            | E-Mail: hinsen at cnrs-orleans.fr
Centre de Biophysique Moleculaire (CNRS) | Tel.: +33-2.38.25.55.69
Rue Charles Sadron                       | Fax:  +33-2.38.63.15.17
45071 Orleans Cedex 2                    | Deutsch/Esperanto/English/
France                                   | Nederlands/Francais
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------