[Jmol-users] rotate selected atoms using the mouse

[Alexander R. <ale...@we...>]

Hi,

>From the manual

"set allowRotateSelected FALSE

When set TRUE, this parameter allows user rotation of the molecule containing the selected atom using the mouse (holding ALT down while dragging). The coordinates of the rotated molecule will be sightly degraded in this process."


I would like to rotate an arbitrary set of atoms using the mouse and currently "set allowRotateSelected TRUE" is the closest thing I found, but works only for a single complete molecule.

I started to implement something myself using bind and rotateSelected and in principle it works:

bind "CTRL-ALT-LEFT" "rotateSelected axisangle {1 1 1 _DELTAX}"

but its not quite as "set allowRotateSelected TRUE". I think I need to make the rotation angle depended on the current view?! Any suggestions?


Best
Alexander