[Chimera-users] Tear-off menus in Chimera 1.5.3 for Mac OS X

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Jeff,
Sorry, tear-off menus are not available in the native aqua version of Chimera (regardless of Chimera version number or Mac OS X version number).  For Mac, only the X windows version has this feature.

Because the "Actions... Color" menu was one of the most useful to tear off, to provide a similar behavior in all Chimera versions we have implemented a separate Color Actions dialog (opened by choosing "Actions... Color... all options").  No global solution to allow tearing off menus in the native Mac version has been found, however.
Best,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                       
UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco

On Jul 9, 2011, at 3:55 PM, Jeff Lawton wrote:

> Hi,
> I am running the native aqua version of Chimera 1.5.3 on Mac OS X 10.6, and
> it seems that the "tear off" feature of the menus is not available, though I
> was previously able to do that when running the X window version of Chimera.
> Is there a way to use the menu "tear off" feature in the native aqua
> version?
> Thanks!
> Jeff