Windows & Mac Users, I've made a fundamental change to PyMOL's mouse interface, and would like to hear what you think.
A while back, one of our insightful Merck colleagues made what I though was an excellent point: "A mouse-click is not the same thing as a mouse-click-and-drag." Thus, it occurred to me that if we could teach PyMOL the difference between these two, then we could enable easier mouse clicks and standard right-click pop-up menu behavior, without losing our current camera control functions. Beta17 is the result. Left, middle, and right click-and-drags work as before. Now, however... - If you left-click-and-release, you get selection toggle behavior. - If you middle-click-and-release you get centering behavior. - If you right-click-and-release you get a context-sensitive pop-up menu. Also, if you right click on an active selection, the pop-up menu is now selection-oriented menu rather than being the standard atom-click menu. Is this better? Let me know...I very much think so. In fact, this is essentially how the sequence viewer already works, so now there is a nice parallel between the 1D and 3D representations. Hopefully that means PyMOL will be easier for new users to learn. Windows: http://delsci.com/beta MacPyMOL: http://delsci.com/macbeta (other platforms will come later -- let's start with these two and see how it goes) There have been a large number of quite drastic changes to PyMOL's internals during the past few weeks, so I would also appreciate knowing whether or not these releases are even stable enough for real-world use. Also, if you're not getting good performance on new ATI graphics hardware, try "set texture_fonts"...it gives a wonderful boost in display performance on the X300 (now autoconfigures), and perhaps on other cards as well. Cheers, Warren -- Warren L. DeLano, Ph.D. Principal Scientist . DeLano Scientific LLC . 400 Oyster Point Blvd., Suite 213 . South San Francisco, CA 94080 . Biz:(650)-872-0942 Tech:(650)-872-0834 . Fax:(650)-872-0273 Cell:(650)-346-1154 . mailto:war...@delsci.com
