<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Jan 21, 2009, at 5:05 PM, Matthew Dougherty wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>1) ability to create folders in the model panel so models can be grouped<br>2) ability to have a model in multiple folders<br>3) ability to show/hide in a folder by a a single checkbox<br>4) ability to name the folder</div></blockquote><br></div><div>These are good suggestions, and we have discussed adding some kind of grouping mechanism in Chimera given that there are a lot of situations where you want to treat a set of models as a single entity (e.g. multiple structures fit into a EM map).</div><div><br></div><div>I think #2 and #3 are in conflict though. Really, I don't think you want #2 -- it's too confusing. Say a model is in two groups: you close one group -- what happens? You hide one group -- what happens? You deactivate one group and move the other -- what happens? Perhaps if you elaborated on the motivation for putting a model in multiple groups then some other alternative could be devised that provides what you need.</div><div><br></div><div>I'll open a change-request in our Trac database for "grouping mechanism" and include the above. I don't really want to promise a timeline, but the issue is a concern of ours.</div><div><br></div><div>--Eric</div><div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> Eric Pettersen</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "> UCSF Computer Graphics Lab</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "> <a href="http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu">http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu</a></font></div></div></div><br><div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br></body></html>