On 03/01/11 22:55, Seth Harris wrote:
Hi all/Paul,
I spend a great deal of time stepping through stuctures
residue-by-residue (space bar) and rotating the molecule to and fro as
a check up. Basically I have the mouse button held down almost
constantly. I wondered if it would be simple to have a key binding to
toggle in/out of a special rotate only mode, analogous to the mouse
button being taped down while in that mode. This would also make
apple's little track pad pretty handy for rotating which it currently
isn't since it's hard to depress the whole pad (the click) and keep it
down while rotating. I've tried using the "i" = constant rotate but
you end up wanting to rotate different ways at each new residue, and
yes, I've even briefly experimented with a very literal "mouse button
taped down" hardware implementation (generous term for it), but I'd
like a faster way to get in and out of the mode (for when you need to
interact with accept/decline windows, click on a menu, or go to other
applications, of course).
Charlie Bond wrote something a little while ago that is something like
this (perhaps).
http://www.ysbl.york.ac.uk/~emsley/coot/mbox-2004-2005/0532.html
Coot will have (be(?) [1]) rocking in 2011. Maybe that will help.
Paul
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