[Chimera-users] changing selection color

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Mike,
You can change the color of the selection outline in the Preferences  
(Favorites... Preferences, switch to category: Background, change  
"selection highlight color").

There is no user interface way to change the thickness of the  
selection outline.  Maybe one of the others can suggest where to edit  
the code.  Alternatively, you could use a separate image processing  
program to thicken the outline after saving the image from Chimera.

A few years ago I ran into the same issue making a figure for a  
paper.  I wanted to show the selection outline, but because the image  
was high resolution and I was supersampling, it turned out very  
thin.  I no longer remember exactly what I did, but I think there was  
some capability in Photoshop to make the outline thicker (something  
to do with "trace" perhaps?).  It followed the existing line  
automatically, I didn't have to hand-draw it.  Other programs might  
have a similar feature.

I hope this helps,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                          meng at cgl.ucsf.edu
UCSF Computer Graphics Lab and Babbitt Lab
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco
                      http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/meng/index.html

On Jul 10, 2008, at 10:44 AM, Michael DiMattia wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a quick question regarding a figure I am trying to make.  I  
> have a multi-chain protein loaded with each subunit surface- 
> rendered individually.  We wanted to find a way to highlight the  
> outline of one of the subunits in the 3d surface rendering and  
> selecting the surface of the chain works really well for this in  
> Chimera.  The familiar green outline highlights the subunit well,  
> even though I realize this is probably not the primary purpose for  
> such highlighting.  I imagine it is just to let the user know what  
> is selected.
>
> But if i were to use the selection highlighting to show such an  
> outline in a figure, i was wondering if it is possible to change  
> the color of the selection outline from green to any other color or  
> if it is possible to change the width of the outline.  I realize  
> it's a long shot, but thought I'd ask anyway in case anyone has  
> tried this before.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Mike DiMattia