Burk wrote: > I am loving this render-er, and am directing my undergrads to it. But > there is one serious inconvenience- the lack of a convenient way to > select individual chains. Selecting chains is a major way of > highlighting items of interest, and is easy on rasmol
I am not familiar with other molecular visualization packages, although I do have access to rasmol. I am somewhat surprised that you though it was easy on rasmol ... Q: How is it easier on rasmol than on Jmol? > an other > platforms. When I press control on the window, I get an extensive set > of select options, such as for amino acids, heteros, or chemistries, > which are very useful. I guess that you might not want to > un-standardize the Select interface, to insert chains, but currently > other accession-specific statistics are loaded in the top of the > control menu. I also realize that you must have had this conversation > before, but as a new user, this is glaring. We probably have had this conversation before ... but we can have it again :-) Other people have asked about selecting entire groups at one time. Q: When you say 'I press control on the window' are you referring to the popup (contextual) menu? Q: Are you asking for some type of 'selection mode' that allows one to choose atoms, groups, or chains? Miguel ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&op=click _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users

