Eric wrote: > In Chime (and RasMol), both monitor lines and labels follow the colors > of the respective atoms by default. Each monitor line by default is two > colors: half the color of each of the two atoms it connects. The > distance number seems to be colored arbitrarily by the color of the > atom which is leftmost at the time the monitor is created.
OK. So it sounds like the same code that is used to draw bonds. Q: Can 'monitors' have a thickness/radius associated with them? Q: Can monitors be drawn with dotted lines? > The commands "color monitors colorname/value" and "color labels > colorname/value" can be used to color all EXISTING monitors with > colorname/value. However, subsequently added monitors still default to > atom colors. Issuing a new "color monitors" command colors ALL existing > monitors, so you can't make monitors have more than one non-atom color > as far as I know. Q: Do you think that this behavior is a 'feature' or a 'bug'? > Labels behave slightly differently. By default, they inherit the colors > of the atoms they label. Understood. For compatibility Jmol does this too. > "color labels" then colors not only all > existing labels one color, but subsequently added labels. OK > Further, the > distance numbers on monitors are evidently considered "labels" and are > colored (differently than the monitor lines themselves) with the "color > label" command. > Subsequently added monitor lines have the lines colored > by atoms, but the distance number colored with the previously executed > "color labels" command. :-) > Coloring of monitors and labels is the same whether created by mouse > clicks or commands. Will send additional comments in followup to Tim Driscoll's posting. Miguel ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Jmol-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers
