Jan wrote:

>>Q: If I do it for 'temperature', are we going to want it for other things
>>too (like charge) ?
>>
> I want it for all.

Of course you want it for all ... everybody wants it all :-)

> I want carbon green

select carbon; color atoms green

> I want helix red and sheet blue

select helix; color atoms red; select sheet; color atoms blue

> and I don't want to say it every time, I want to manipulate the color
> schemes, *too*.

That represents quite a bit of tedious work for me and I am not going to
get much personal satisfaction out of it. And since I do not receive any
financial compensation for this work, the 'personal satisfaction quotient'
is quite important :-)

Plus, it just isn't clear to me that changing colors is a good thing. As
someone from outside the chemistry community, it seems to me that the
publishers and standards boards have been somewhat delinquent in this
area. I think that there should be a standard set of recommended colors
for published manuscripts and for software packages.

Since I want Jmol used on public web sites, where students and casual
users can come and go from time to time, I generally think that the colors
should be consistent.

Right now I am struggling to wrap this thing up and ship the official v10
release. I am supposed to be in 'bug-fix mode'. The only reason I
implemented the 'temperature' colors is because it was a very isolated
change and the command exists in RasMol/Chime.

Look, at some point I will probably open up the color palettes and give
you the coloring options that you want. But it probably is not going to
happen until 2005.


Miguel



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