How to contribute?

ghutchis · September 9, 2023, 7:18pm

Sure. There are a number of places to start depending on your C++ or Python comfort.

Some issues are marked as “help wanted” and are good first issues:

One other thing that’s come up is in the avogadroapp repository. It would be great to have an auto-save feature that calls mainwindow.cpp:saveFileAs(const QString& fileName, Io::FileFormat* writer) using the CJSON writer:

A similar task would be to add a method to mainwindow.cpp / .h to exportFile(const QString& fileName) and determine the format from the extension.

These are options in C++…

In Python, we have code to send messages to the app - it would be great to clean this up into a real class that could be used like from avogadro import connect and methods for the various JSON-RPC calls like openFile and saveGraphic, etc.

github.com

OpenChemistry/avogadroapp/blob/17b8ff9f9d00f6c6a4d3ea8a285137c54e90b5ac/scripts/avogadro-remote.py

#!/usr/bin/python

from __future__ import print_function

import sys
import json
import socket
import struct
import tempfile


class Connection:
    '''Process a JSON-RPC request'''

    def __init__(self, name="avogadro"):
        """
        Connect to the local named pipe

        :param name: The name of the named pipe.
        """

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