id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version resolution keywords cc blockedby blocking notify_on_close platform project 2714 Allow custom option on Open File dialog tony.schaefer@… Tom Goddard "Would like to allow custom options on the Open File dialog for specific formats. Main trouble is that the native Open File dialogs on Mac and Windows can't be use (via Qt) to do this, so we would have to use a Qt Open File dialog which is considerably poorer user experience. Begin forwarded message: From: Anthony James Schaefer Subject: [chimerax-users] differentiating file category Date: December 30, 2019 at 2:30:44 PM PST To: ""chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu"" Hello, Is there any way I can get a bundle to know that I'm trying to open a file from a certain category (e.g.Molecular structure vs. Molecular trajectory) from the File -> Open... menu? I'm trying to build a plugin that will allow me to open Gaussian log files in ChimeraX. I'd like to have it open the optimized structure when I go File -> Open... and change the file filter to ""Molecular structure files"". When I set the file filter to ""Molecular trajectory files"", I'd like it to open the log file as a trajectory with each frame being one of Gaussian's optimization steps. The file stays the same, I just want to have my 'open_file' method know that it should open the file differently. So far, I've tried having multiple 'Open' entries in my bundle tags. Here are some relevant tags from my setup.py: ""ChimeraX :: DataFormat :: LOG :: Gaussian output file :: Molecular structure :: .log :: :: :: :: :: Gaussian output file :: utf-8"", ""ChimeraX :: DataFormat :: LOG trajectory :: Gaussian output trajectory :: Molecular trajectory :: .log :: :: :: :: :: Gaussian output file :: utf-8"", ""ChimeraX :: Open :: LOG :: Gaussian output file ::"", ""ChimeraX :: Open :: LOG trajectory :: Gaussian output trajectory :: :: coordsets:Bool"", My 'open_file' definition line is: def open_file(session, path, format_name, coordsets=False): While I'm testing, I've set up my 'open_file' method to print the arguments that get passed to it. When I use File -> Open..., I can see that 'format_name' is always ""Gaussian ouput file"" (never ""Gaussian output trajectory"") and 'coordsets' is always False, regardless of the file filter. When I use the `open` command (`open asdf.log coordsets true`), 'coordsets' is True and 'format_name' is ""Gaussian output file"". I can work with the open command because of the 'coordsets' argument, but I'd like to know if there's something I can do with the File -> Open... menu. Thanks, Tony" enhancement assigned moderate Input/Output all ChimeraX