<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Jan 24, 2009, at 7:49 PM, Matthew Dougherty wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>another suggestion would be to put open and export buttons on the model panel.<br>Makes it easier than going up to menu pull down.<br></div></blockquote><br></div><div>I'm hesitant to add buttons to the model panel since the button list is already kind of long, particularly for functions that aren't all that hard to access. As a power user, you might want to consider using keyboard shortcuts, as documented here:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/current/docs/ContributedSoftware/accelerators/alist.html">Chimera Keyboard Shortcuts (Accelerators)</a></div><br><div>In particular, 'op' will bring up the open-file dialog, and 'ov' the open-volume dialog. There are shortcuts for opening the last file you opened, the second-to-last, the last two, etc. which is convenient for quickly opening the same file(s) you were working on in a previous session when you start a new session. Also, 'xs' will export a scene.</div><div><br></div><div>--Eric</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></body></html>