<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Kevin,<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>You are right that the Render by Attribute doesn't save it's state in sessions. You should nonetheless be able to recolor your surface using that tool, though you will have to start from the default values rather than the values of the session.</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I will open an enhancement request in our Trac database for this session-saving feature with you on the recipient list, so you will know when it gets implemented. It will take a while because there are a lot of high-value features ahead of it.</div><div><br></div><div>--Eric</div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Eric Pettersen</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>UCSF Computer Graphics Lab</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu">http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu</a></font></p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span> </div><br><div><div>On May 18, 2009, at 1:10 PM, Thomas Goddard wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi Kevin,<br><br> Yes, the settings that produced the surface coloring using Render by <br>Attribute are not saved in the session, only the coloring is. I agree <br>that the settings should be saved. Eric Pettersen wrote the Render by <br>Attribute code and can comment on whether this will happen in the future.<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Tom<br><br><br>Kevin Wu wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Hi Thomas,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The colors do correctly restore, but if the render by attribute window <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">is opened again, the data about the color doesn't seem to be saved. I <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">cannot modify the colors or values.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Thanks!<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Kevin<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On May 18, 2009, at 11:53, Thomas Goddard <<a href="mailto:goddard@cgl.ucsf.edu">goddard@cgl.ucsf.edu</a>> wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Hi Kevin,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"> I tried coloring PDB 1a0m surface (Actions / Surface / show) by <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">bfactor, saving a session, restarting, opening session, and the colors <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">were correctly restored in Chimera versions 1.3 and 1.4 (daily build). <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Maybe you are using an older Chimera? Chimera menu Help / About UCSF <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Chimera will tell you the version. Another possibility is that you <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">are display some other kind of surface (e.g. a density map isosurface) <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">where the coloring is not recorded in the session.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"> Tom<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Kevin Wu wrote:<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Hi all,<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">I'm having trouble saving some data to the session. I've rendered a <br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">figure using the "render/select by attribute" by either the occupancy <br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">or beta field in a pdb file. However, when I save session and restore <br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">it, the colors that I've chosen seem to be erased, and need to be <br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">reset again. Is there a way to save this data?<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Thanks in advance!<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Kevin Wu<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">------------------------------------------------------------------------<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Chimera-users mailing list<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu">Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu</a><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users">http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users</a><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>_______________________________________________<br>Chimera-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu">Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu</a><br>http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>