[chimera-dev] volume viewer/mouse

[Dougherty, Matthew T]

I am trying to write some python scripts relating to volume viewer.

two things I need to have are:
1)  the ability to figure out what dataset is active on the volume viewer.  I will manually pick that with the mouse, my python sw will process the active model in volume viewer. 
2) on the selected dataset I need to know what the min/max values are.


In a unrelated problem:
lately I completely avoid changing the camera scale value, I always want it to be 1.0.
The mouse scroll wheel changes the scale value, so I am having accidental changes to camera scale values.
How do I halt wheel commands from changing scale?
under preferences/mouse I have "use mouse scroll wheel" set to false.

side note: I just bought a logitech G600 mouse which has 12 buttons on the mouse that can be programmed through mode (3) and shift(2) buttons to have 12*3*2 active buttons that I can set to accelerator commands.
So one of my modes will be dedicated to volume viewer controls, another for stereo/dome/camera, the other is general chimera commands.




Matthew Dougherty
National Center for Macromolecular Imaging
Baylor College of Medicine