Dear developers, 1. As a result of my sessions with students, there is a recurrent topic that has appeared in previous years, and maybe now is the time to tackle it: Using the applet and popup menu, one can color by chain, but there is no way to select chains other than from the command line. Also, the default chain colors are often too subtle and similar. So I think it would be really useful for general nonexpert users to be able to select a chain from a list, in the same way one can select residues of a certain amino acid, or all atoms of a certain element, or hetero groups from a list too. I can manage the addition in the popup menu, but I need guidance or help in how the computed menus are programmed. I've looked in org/jmol/popup and see that updateElementsComputedMenu() depends on elementsPresentBitSet updateHeteroComputedMenu() depends on htHetero but have been unable to pursue this further. Is there a similar variable for chains, or that infrastructure will need to be implemented anew?
2. I would like to add menu subentries that allow to make use of the new commands for calculating protein secondary structure. This I know how to do, I think, as it is just a popup menu entry mapping to a command. My plan is Style > Structures > Calculate by DSSP | Calculate by Ramachandran at the end, after "trace" and a separator. Opinions are welcome. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Jmol-developers mailing list Jmol-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers
