[ase-users] Updating the gui window without opening a new window?

[Ask Hjorth Larsen]

Hi Colin,

2018-02-06 15:11 GMT+01:00 Colin Bousige via ase-users
<ase-users at listserv.fysik.dtu.dk>:
> Hi,
>
> I am building a tool to easily construct some structure using tkinter to input some values and ase to show the resulting structure.
>
> My question is: how do you update the gui window with a modified structure *without* opening a new window ?
>
> Here is a short example showing my problem:
>
> ```python
> from ase import Atoms
> from ase.visualize import view
> from ase.build import fcc111
>
> slab = fcc111('Ag', size=(5,6,1), a=4, orthogonal=True)
> view(slab)
> # now we modify this slab (in my case this is done via tkinter where eg. the user can set size=(i,j,k))
> slab = fcc111('Ag', size=(5,6,3), a=4, orthogonal=True)
> view(slab) # Here I would like the view of the structure to be updated as I change it, and not open a new gui window
> ```

The 'view' command always opens a new process.

I don't completely understand what you need to do - the slab is
modified by the user, yet you later replace it?

You may wish to try slab.edit().

Best regards
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>
> Thanks in advance for your help,
> Colin
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