[Chimera-users] How to change the default color for pseudobonds?

[Oliver Clarke]

Perfect, thank you both for the quick responses. Adjusting the default in the source worked perfectly.

Cheers,
Oliver.
On Nov 6, 2013, at 1:36 PM, Eric Pettersen <pett at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:

> On Nov 5, 2013, at 4:45 PM, Oliver Clarke <olibclarke at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Greetings,
>> 
>> Is there any way to change the default color for pseudo bonds (e.g. distance monitors)?
>> 
>> I generally work on a white background, and the default of yellow is very difficult to see. Pretty much everything else in the Chimera GUI seems to be customizable, which I love, but I can’t see how to alter the default in this particular instance.
> 
> Yes, as Elaine said there probably should be an option for this.  I will put a feature-request ticket in the Chimera Trac database for this.  In the interim, in addition to Elaine's suggestions you could modify your Chimera to do this by editing <your Chimera>/share/StructMeasure/DistMonitor.py, line 61, and change:
> 
> distanceMonitor = addMonitoredGroup('distance monitor')
> 
> to:
> 
> distanceMonitor = addMonitoredGroup('distance monitor', color="purple")
> 
> to make distance monitors default to purple, Obviously you could use any other color name you wanted instead of purple.
> 
> Note that on a Mac "<your Chimera>" is Chimera.app/Contents/Resources.
> 
> --Eric
> 
>                         Eric Pettersen
>                         UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
>                         http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu
> 
> 

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