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=== Redesign of the default pop-up menu === | === Redesign of the default pop-up menu === | ||
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| + | ''Update'': Part of the proposals below were implemented in Jmol 14.6, yielding an improved, simpler menu: | ||
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--[[User:AngelHerraez|AngelHerraez]] 12:00, 11 May 2016 (CEST) | --[[User:AngelHerraez|AngelHerraez]] 12:00, 11 May 2016 (CEST) | ||
Latest revision as of 18:43, 2 September 2016
Update: Part of the proposals below were implemented in Jmol 14.6, yielding an improved, simpler menu:
--AngelHerraez 12:00, 11 May 2016 (CEST)
Rationale:
- Frequent operations like rendering styles (cartoon, trace, ball and stick) are currently involving 3 or 4 submenus; same for coloring.
- The regular user may not realize that most of the times the styles need to be applied to the atoms, all other elements just inherit style and color.
Proposal:
- Simplify the most frequent operations by bringing atom style and color options to the first level submenus.
- Another addition: for Boundbox, Axes and UnitCell there is currently a checkbox (display/hde) plus a submenu that controls the display (off) and style (dotted, px width, Å width in several submenus). The proposal merges all these into a single menu entry:
To test the changed menu live, download this file, save it to a known location and load it into Jmol using this command:
load menu "somePath/JmolMenu-14-4-4_new.menu"
For more information about using custom menus like this, both in the Jmol Application and in JSmol within a webpage, please visit Custom Menus.
