Quoting Bob Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hmm, yes, maybe we need a switch. > > Rolf, > > Tell me again why you want them visible for the present model -- but not > other models -- when atoms are hidden? What advantage is this? Can you > give a concrete example? >
Actually the reason is quite similar to the reason why Paul doesn't want them to be visible in his example. If you look at the use of models/frames in the asymmetric unit files of the 'Protein Data Bank', they are mainly used for different conformations of NMR structures. This means that many atoms are at the same or almost the same place and others are more distant. This varies of course with each structure. If all atoms of all frames are shown at the same time, it is quite difficult to figure out how a specific configuration looks like. So usually it is better to look at them individually. On the other hand it would be very tedious to repeat every rendering options for example 25 times. Therefore the corresponding atoms in all models/frames should be selected at once. The mess if the selection halos of all models/frames would be visible would be even worse than in Paul's example, because the atoms in different models/frames are very close to each other. >>> 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!) >> >> > Rolf, can you describe how you are using selection halos in the context > of nonvisible atoms? While I started writing the example I realized that the main use I had in mind will not be possible. But another use I can imagine would be to use hide/display to browse through different chains, hiding the others. Or use the commands to browse through the different asymmetric units (or parts of it), or a combination of both ideas. Regards, Rolf ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
