From: Eric M. <em...@mi...> - 2007-09-09 01:31:07
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At 9/3/07, Bob wrote: >I'm hoping someone will set up >a "Chime look-alike" menu for us to try. Horrors -- I hope not! The Chime menu was quite a mess. This was because a large set of late additions were shoehorned into a single menu item ("Select") to save coding effort. The result was a very disorganized menu. For example, changing colors, changing mouse clicks to measure distances, and creating surfaces and changing their displays were all under "Select". The Chime menu started out as the RasMol menu. However, the RasMol menu never had enough power to be terribly useful, beyond a few basics. So I wouldn't go there either. What I think would be useful would be a simplifed Jmol menu for beginners that omits the more advanced stuff. Perhaps there could be an item on the menu "Simplified menu" that when checked would use the simplified menu, and when unchecked would show the full/advanced menu? What I think might make the menu system enormously more useful would be some sort of help system built into the menu. For example, what if mouseover any menu item opened a box with a sentence or short paragraph of explanation (including grayed out items, and why they're grayed out). Perhaps these could be brief explanations, with links that open a new browser window and go to the full explanation? Just a thought. -Eric /* - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Eric Martz, Professor Emeritus, Dept Microbiology U Mass, Amherst -- http://www.umass.edu/molvis/martz Biochem 3D Education Resources http://MolviZ.org See 3D Molecules, Install Nothing! - http://firstglance.jmol.org Protein Explorer - 3D Visualization: http://proteinexplorer.org Workshops: http://workshops.proteinexplorer.org World Index of Molecular Visualization Resources: http://molvisindex.org ConSurf - Find Conserved Patches in Proteins: http://consurf.tau.ac.il Atlas of Macromolecules: http://atlas.proteinexplorer.org PDB Lite Macromolecule Finder: http://pdblite.org Molecular Visualization EMail List (molvis-list): http://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/molvis-list - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - */ |