Bob Hanson wrote: >First, I'm ok whatever people think about selection halos. Right now >they are not hidden, but that's just because I put a certain line of >code in a certain place. Paul, I also wonder about your use of selection >halos. Regular halos are much more useful. Is it possible you have not >thought of using the new "halo" option? I would think selection halos >would be of very limited use. > >That said, I can't think of a good reason to have the selection halos >visible if everything else about the atom is hidden. > That's exactly the reason: everything else is hidden, so only the selection halo lets you know that it is there (and selected).
>So, Paul, I'm guessing you are using something like: > >display cell=555 #just that central cell >display all > >Then you also want to highlight what people have selected, and after >they have selected, you want them to be able to change the display and >see more/less of the same selection. > >Ah.... Two options: > >1) I change it so selection halos hide >2) You use regular halos instead of selection halos > >Ah, but if they use the menu, right? Then (2) is not an option. > >I just made an argument for (1). Another argument for (1) is that we >also don't show atoms that are selected in non-displayed models using >the model/frame commnad, but they are there. > >I've convinced myself that selections halos should be hidden. > >Any objections? > > If selection halos would be hidden this would allow for two possibilities for our Jmol interface at the FLI: 1) don't integrate selection halos any more (no option, too important!) 2) don't integrate hide/display (what a pity!) So the only way I can see out of this dilemma is a configuration switch that determines if selection halos are influenced by hide/display or not. Since it is only a single line of code somewhere, as you stated above, it shouldn't be very difficult. Regards, Rolf ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
