I had this same problem, but quickly discovered you need to write it as:
zoomto (selected) 0;
The parentheses matter!
Thanks to both Frieda and Rolf for the great information!
-Tom
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Eran Hodis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Frieda,
> I tried this but encountered some problems. (Jmol 11.5.51)
>
> When I selected a group of atoms and then typed "zoomto 0 selected", what
> happened is a 2 fold zoom out instead of a zoom in.
>
> Best regards,
> Eran
>
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 1:02 AM, Reichsman Frieda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>
>> Hi Thomas,
>> I think what you are looking for is fulfilled by the zoomto command.
>>
>> zoomto (atomset) 0
>>
>> will bring the atomset to (approximately) occupy the applet display.
>>
>> I don't think this (the zero) is implemented for zoom, but I have not
>> tried it. Also, zoomto has a timing parameter, so if you wanted the zoom to
>> be instant, you could say
>>
>> zoomto 0 (atomset) 0
>>
>> -the first zero is the time in seconds that the zoom will occur over, the
>> second zero is the "fit the atomset to the display" setting.
>>
>> See the documentation for zoomto for more options.
>>
>> Frieda
>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> On Aug 19, 2008, at 2:34 PM, Thomas Stout wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi All --
>>
>> I've been mucking about with "zoom" today and wondered this: is it
>> expected behavior that the 100% level for zoom should be held constant for a
>> loaded model? What I mean is this: when a structure is loaded, the 100%
>> level is calculated by Jmol to be the factor at which "all atoms are
>> completely visible on the screen through all rotations using the default
>> vanderWaals rendering percentage." If I then issue "zoom 200", the display
>> is zoomed in by 200 percent -- expected behavior. If, however, I issue:
>> "zoom (atom expression) 100" (for example, "zoom (*:B) 100"*), *would it
>> * *not be reasonable to expect the display to be altered such that the
>> stated atom expression is now scaled to (approximately) fit the Jmol
>> display?
>>
>> I'd like to use this to automatically transition to selected portions of
>> PDB files (such as ligands or amino acid ranges of interest) and have the
>> proper display zoom auto-calculated.
>>
>> Is there another way to do this? Can I calculate on the fly a boundbox
>> for the current selection and set the zoom level to fill the display with
>> this new boundbox?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Tom
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